>> for republicans? probably not. we have to give paul ryan an awful lot of credit because yes, it does define the conversation for 2012 but the last time i checked, when paul ryan proposed something like this, he got about 10% of his republican caucus to go along with him. let's see how popular. chris: is he the canary in the mine? >> he might be. let's see how popular it is among republicans and let's see what barack obama does. obviously mow the republicans can say, ok, we have a budget on the table, or at least paul ryan does, what do you believe? it will be about 2012. chris: 2/3 of the tea party people don't like that word compromise. >> the tea party was in part a spasm not just against spending but against the washington establishment. what they're seeing is something like washington business as usual. that's the only way legislation gets passed. this is an lergic reaction to it. chris: according to our polling, the actually people who show up to caucuses like in iowa, they have that in their mindsets. will th

the republican budget fails to do that and the republican budget will not have democratic support. we are here as one of the previous speakers said, now is the time, now is the time to preserve medicare and democrats will. i urge a no vote on the republican plan. thank you. the chair: the gentlewoman's time has expired. -- the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: mr. chairman, at this time i'd like to yield myself the remainder of the time and address the house from the well. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. ryan: first of all, mr. chairman, i want to thank our staffs. the democratic staff and the republican staff for all of their hard work in getting us to this moment. i want to ask my colleagues a question. i want to ask the american people a question. you know, i remember one of the worst moments i had in congress was the financial crisis of 2008. seems like it was yesterday. we had the treasury secretary, we had the federal reserve chairman coming here talking about crisis. talking about bank collapses. and what came out of that was

this is already happened this is what the republicans don't want you to know. but there's more you know republicans are always saying that the wealthy pay the most taxes and that almost fifty percent of the country doesn't pay any charges at all because it all going to money so why a large group of poor people indeed don't pay any federal income taxes they still pay tons of other taxes in fact if you include payroll taxes gas taxes sales taxes property taxes they pay more taxes than the rich as a percentage of their income take a look at this chart. showing the taxes of the average working a single american compared to the four hundred richest people in america with an average income of twenty six thousand dollars and the average income the average worker pays just over six thousand dollars in taxes that's twenty three percent c. average person the average is twenty six thousand and that at this level would probably not paying anything at all income tax but they are paid six thousand dollars in taxes twenty three percent of the guy on the other hand the top fou

>> i wasn't always a republican. from haiti and they identified with the democratic party because they were told that's what black and working-class people do. what's sort of converted me, if you will, after i began working in the inner city as a school counselor and witnessed how a lot of democratic policies purported to help black people to their detriment, that's when i sort of reevaluated my allegiance. >> arm strong, you identify as a conservative but don't identify as a republican. what's the process to make you a black conservative but not a republican? >> there's an inherent problem even in the question you ask. you give the impression the democratic party has since its inception has had all the answers for black people. if that were the case black people would not still be complaining about the problems they complained about 30 years ago, 20 years ago and today. no party has a monopoly on what is best no matter who is in power at the white house black people should be at the table. you should want to be a pa

you need to know this there's a secret that paul ryan and the republicans who are arguing for even more tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires frankly don't want you to know. it's a secret that every republican president since ronald reagan and even to a certain extent bill clinton didn't want us to know about and that secret is that supply side economics that we sometimes call trickle down economics or reaganomics doesn't work in fact it only works to do one thing create a massive wealth inequality and screws over ninety eight percent of us and rains down money on the other two percent who use that extra cash to speculate on wall street and crash our economy supply side economics has never ever worked anywhere it's ever been tried anywhere in the world it's never worked trickle down economics only produces a nation of peons yet here republicans are trying to pass a budget it will embrace an even more radical version of reaganomics further slashing the tax rates for america's oligarchy and leaving the rest of us pick up the tab by dropping our health insurance taking food off our ta

host: atlanta, ga., and jonathan dodd our republicans line. -- on all republicans line. caller: i want to comment about the debt and taxes. first, what do you think about the idea of every representative agreeing to be hooked up to polygraph machines, and every time they stretched the truth they get shocked. the bigger the law, the greater the shock. do think we would last through the day or the week? anyway. the debt situation i think it is far worse than the american people realize. three weeks ago there was a story that made the news cycle. in the month of february, we borrowed two hundred $23 billion. i did the math. that is close to $8 billion a day. i do not know what the figures for march are yet. if the federal government achieved what they achieved in february in march, that is over $450 billion in two months, nine weeks. that is beyond astounding. guest: two thoughts. i hope i heard you right when you said we would get shocked with a polygraph, and not shot, clearly with gabrielle giffords still recovering that is not a corporate event as a joke. you are right

and the republicans really have no game plan. >> belva: why can't republicans do the same thing?> they are. i mean, they are. but the fact is, jerry brown is a guy who has done this for 40 years and knows how to get a message out as you've seen with the youtube. he's done this a couple of times now and if he goes out there and campaigns around the state, as he says he's going to do starting next week, his message goes to the voterers a lot more than -- the republican leadership up there doesn't have a consistent message. >> like we saw in the midwest where people are going to take over the capitol and there's a showdown that way. is it going to get that bad because we don't have a budget? social services are being cut. schools have bigger classroom sizes. people don't want to pay taxes. >> both sides have something to worry about if that happens. the public opinion on public employees unions, that has changed a lot on this pension issue. people are angry about that. spending issues. on the other hand, how far do they want to cut? do they want to see the school year cut three week

the republicans are not listening. seniors know that dismantling medicare and replacing it with a voucher program means that they no longer will have access to a guaranteed set of health benefits. there will be no guaranteed health benefits under medicare. they know that the value of a limited voucher, one that's capped, will not enable them to meet the rising costs of health care. they will know that they will have to pay more out-of-pocket and more in premiums. unfortunately, the republicans are proud of this. and they are telling their seniors that they are -- they will be on their own to deal with the insurance industry. that they will be on their own to deal with limits on benefits. they will be on their own on uncertainty of an illness occurs or if they need long-term care. that they may well be -- there may be seclusions for certain kinds of care. specialists or primary care or settings when you can get care. that there could be discrimination based on income and levels of illness and age. and i want to throw in

i disagree that the republicans predict the way the republicans are running for the country. they do not let their children serve, but they want to argue about a woman's uterus. host: will the been the result of the government shutting down? what would of been the good from that? caller: no one would have gotten anything. it would of been the best thing we could've done and started all over again. right now, what are you going to get out of it? host: nebraska, jerome on the republican line. caller: people act like this budget deal just come up in the last couple of months. it is something that should have been done at a year ago. this ain't a deal that just came up. democrats had control of the house, the senate, the presidency, large majorities, and the could have passed in the budget that they wanted. but they did not want to show their hand, how much more money they were going to spend. the could have that any budget passed that they wanted. the republicans should take no blame for this. it should have been done a year ago. thank you. host: let's go back to molly hooper fo

your house republicans understand. your house republicans understand. >> well, jenny beth martin is the national coordinator for tea party patriots and organized co-founder of tea party patriots and he's out -- i thought you were in california, out from sacramento. >> yes, sir. >> but let me start with you, jenny, on these poll numbers that we've seen of late in this tea party -- and every pollster asks it a little bit differently, but generally it's sort of supportive of the tea party, favorable, unfavorable. here was the cnn poll, now the favorable rating at 32%, unfavorable 48%. when you look inside the numbers, among independents it's a net negative. among republicans, it's a net positive. do those numbers concern you? are you concerned that you're losing them? >> i'm not concerned about it. we're seeing growth within the movement. i talked to people today from west virginia who started like eight months ago and they had four people at their first meeting and now they have 2,000 people in their group. people in mas

republicans shouldn't vote for it. so you're going to see the republican presidential candidates sort of insert themselves in these congressional debates. it's easy for them because they don't have to take a vote on this. the one potential candidate the white house is keeping their eye on is john huntsman. he comes back from china in a couple of months. gwen: he's the president's ambassador to china. a republican former governor of utah. >> they'll smother him with love. they'll see how that works. but they are agitated by him and i would say the white house is slightly preoccupied by him. gwen: somebody happened to leak some conservative online publications that he'd written all these nice letters about the president saying he was a remarkable leader, whichic i guess is what you say about your boss. >> the president could smother mitt romney with love on health care too. mitt romney signed the massachusetts health care bill that has some resemblances to the president's. gwen: from the democrats' point of view, not onl

republicans are the party clearly linked with drilling, with production, and republicans have always -- this is an issue that has always played so well for republicans. in the political debate. we saw that so clearly in 2008 with drill, baby, drill. so they have jumped on it. they're starting hearings. there's clearly a strategy of injecting the gas price issue right back into the campaign. gwen: and at the same time we see the president saying he's going to have his attorney general look into that price gouging issue which i feel like i've heard a lot of this before. >> my colleagues and i have covered the energy issue a couple of months ago. a couple of weeks ago saying we should just start calling up all the stories we wrote in 2008 because the talking points are the same and the proposed solutions are the same. what the president knows full well and what republicans who understand policy know full well is this is not an issue that the president can solve. this is not an issue that the congress can solve. there is not a policy that can be enacted that can make gas prices go down i

takers under the republican plan. countless seniors who would no longer be able to remain in nursing homes because of cuts in medicaid funding. those are the takers. you decide, america. who are the takers and who are the makers? this is not a pathway to prosperity, it's a dead end. thank you. the chair: the gentleman's time has expire the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin. mr. ryan: i yield two minutes to mr. rokita. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. rokita: thank you, mr. chairman. for -- where the president has failed to lead and be honest with us, we've had the courage to tell the truth about america's debt crisis. we propose honest solutions required to fix it. as a new member of congress, i have already learned that the rules in washington are stacked in favor of people who want to spend more money. in contrast, in indiana we have a balanced budget, we have a triple-a bond rating and we have not raised taxes because we know that tacks are not the problem. the problem is, mr.

. >> republicans increase nih funding in the 1990's. i would remind folks again that there is a lot of accusations going back and frost across the table. this budget does not say anything about nih. under this budget, funding at nih could increase. that is the decision that the appropriations committee would make. they will get a bucket of resources, money that they will divide appropriately as the appropriations committee sees fit, where to put the resources, they hard-earned taxpayer money that they sent to washington to do the work that needs to be done. no cuts to engage in this budget and if you think you are voting on a cut to nih or increase with this amendment, is simply not true. those decisions will be made by the appropriations committee. a 300% increase over three years, the nih budget was doubled when the republicans controlled the house in the 1990's and no specific cuts to engage in this budget and with that, i urge defeat of the amendment and yelled back the balance of my time. >> the gentle lady from florida can close t

the republican budget. eliminates guaranteed coverage for our seniors under medicare which currently serve 48 million elderly americans, slashes medicaid for seniors and nursing homes and americans with disability. it increases college education costs for 10 million middle class students. and we need to invest in education. they are our future. if we don't invest in our students and education, they can't provide for us. we need to invest on them. we don't need to cut them. and of course give tax breaks to the big oip companies -- oil companies and companies that shift jobs overseas. seniors in my district live on a fixed income. can you imagine living on a fixed income. as was stated before $19,000 a month, whatever income you have. it's very difficult to make your mortgage payments, put food on the table. know how you're going to get by the next day. or if you have any emergencies or others. we are a country, we are america, we are the greatest country in the world. and we should provide for every american

but secondly i may be a republican but i'm not a tea party republican. i'm a progressive republican. and for donald trump to go out there and accusing president obama of not being born in the united states and doing all sorts of things and carrying on about bullying the poor man when we should be talking about john mccain. i love john mccain but he was born on a ship. and people are not even questioning or saying anything. i think that there is something funny going on. so i think the tea party is just as bad as the far left. i think we should have progressives in this thing. would be good as a progressive businessman in the white house but i don't like his tea party stance. host: trump gets results another says. we cannot continue down this road. but does he understand the cause? another story is cairo. the headline is inmates 23 and focusing on moranubarak his two sons gunman -- gamal is prosecutor number 23 and his older brother is prosecutisonerr 24. it says there is nothing agricultural about it. it is a two story block of poured concrete and the wa

side the republicans have no i think republicans have the democrats and we just have as a country because we get so entrenched on our sides that we're not willing to listen to the other side you have senator tom coburn who took a fiscal commission and said i like this we should pass this and he got a vista rated by people on the right saying that includes tax increases where was the house and senate leadership bring up a fiscal commission ideas for a vote they were absent it came out in december they were absolutely absent in bringing that up i knew about that but you brought it up you brought up that was an idea that. haven't done anything and i'm thinking that i'm going to nothing with that in that matter right from the way we're supposed to have the fiscal commission the reason why the president had a point why wasn't just passed by the senate and house because the republicans pulled their support who didn't pass the budget last year ok it looks like there was so nicely worded look look yeah absolutely both parties you think you have control of the house instead of last year when the b

republicans and religion will never be out of our schools if republicans have anything to do with it and i still you take how state conservatives are laundering money from huge corporations to keep schools faith based. who screwed seniors one thing that paul ryan isn't touting in the republican budget that he wrote in john boehner and pushed through the house of representatives with every republican before voting in favor of it is that it includes a hidden thirty four trillion that's with a t. that's thirty four billion million thirty four trillion dollars tax hike on america's senior citizens. by the center for economic policy and research shows that if the republican budget plan isn't acted in over the next seventy five years as medicare is phased out senior citizens will have to pay thirty four trillion dollars more out of their own pockets to receive roughly the same health care and while the government is saving money that thirty four trillion world goes straight into the bank accounts of the for profit health insurance companies and likely bonuses for their multi-millionaire ex

the republican congress has made him safer.end without restraint now, so he's like light beer, all the hope and vision without the spending calories. and they think america's gone to a better place in racial relations. this is a good country, doesn't want to pull the string out of that sweater. they want to keep him, if they can. but obama is vulnerable to the sending a message campaign. people will say how do i maximize the social value of my vote? i can't just ascent to what goes on, he spends too much. another group will say i didn't like the health care thing, i've got to send him a message on that. another group is going to say he bows too much, i didn't like that. he took over the car company. and one day, he'll look up and see all these people on the ridge, and like general custer, that don't wish him ill, but will send him a message and he is very vulnerable to that campaign. >> let me take a break. we'll come back and talk more politics, including the trump effect that seems to be taking over more republican primary vo

it's not unions versus republicans, it's just not. the reality is new jersey, we have lots of laws that have put managers like myself with both hands tied behind our back. i'll give you an example of this. we came to or police budget and there's something in new jersey called binding arbitration. arbitrators have a set of rules making decisions based upon what's going on around the state. here i'm sitting at the stable saying i can't afford to give you a sizeable rate, worse economy in my lifetime, difficult times, unions are taking zero in terms of raises. i need you to take it as well. no, we need to go to arbitration. the lawyers took me acid and said mayor you can't afford to go to arbitrate trairks. the town gave 5 or 4% increases and in binding arbitration you will be held by those standards. these are rules that are just not fair . >> charlie: what did you do. >> we ended up in a contract we couldn't afford. when wean got sort of the cutbacks from the state, we ended up having to do what was unconscionable to me, leave off poli

republicans don't press. meantime the polls, at least the ones i saw, seem to say maybe there's less of an attraction to voting on taxes that, you know, we are going to pay. now there seems to be to tax the rich. any thoughts in the democratic party or any of their allies to put that before the voters? >> this is where it's going to be interesting to see how much pressure brown gets. there's absolutely a feeling among base democrats that this is where brown should go. there is the public support for increasing taxes on the wealthiest californians, republicans are fighting that one tooth and nail. many democrats also want to see taxes on oil, taxes -- more taxes on corporations. the republicans are fighting that, saying that would hurt economic recovery in california. and brown has tried to, you know, be right down the middle and try to appeal to both sides on this. he really has done an awful lot of lobbying work among republicans. >> he has no leverage with them, though. >> i'm not- i sense something is movi

my republican friends have lost track of the republican roots. for republicans used to believe in infrastructure, lincoln, eisenhower, made the gas tax, reagan raised the gas tax. this budget is a profound investment in infrastructure. it will put millions to work. renewing and rebuilding america. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from arizona. mr. grijalva: let me yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from minnesota, mr. ellison. the chair: the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. ellison: the people's budget contains a provision for infrastructure development and the national infrastructure bank. i want to agree wholeheartedly with congressman blumenauer. we cannot only put america back to work, but we can strengthen the infrastructure that will make it safe to go across a bridge. we cannot negligent the -- neglect the bridges and road, the high-speed optic fiber cables and all the things our country needs for a 21st century infrastructure. it's a jobs program, the people's budget is talking about jobs

this referendum. >> well, there's republicans, and then there's republicans.hink some of the republicans that voted with us did so just to protect their rear ends in the next election. others did vote with us because they believe in workers' rights. those people will get out and help us, i believe. >> armond budish, democratic minority leader of the ohio house of representatives. thanks very much for your time tonight. i really appreciate it, sir. >> thanks for having me. >> along with their now dust-covered promise to spend every day working on jobs, jobs, jobs republicans won big in the last election promising to repeal the horrible unconstitutional government-run job-killing obamacare. ah! surprise, surprise, one state actively trying to loosen obamacare's unholy grip is trying to switch to totally lefty pinko care because it's cheaper and better. i've got the details for you next. like the she smallestt ofof startups.ups. th ththat lets yos your employeloy, pa and custcustomersvate and sharee so you can can unleash tsh the of your mor your peopleople. gett

during the republican eisenhower administration a republican congress you know the top tax rate of ninety one percent on the very wealthy and corporate income taxes constituted thirty one percent of total government revenues things were doing pretty good right now corporate revenues are sixteen point six seven yards yeah right back if you travel right polls we are only those numbers held right up pretty much until reagan at the world were competing now with china and india as of the world and places like what governments of the world are right as china is also dies it's a great window lindsey wixson will be hello us is here with marilyn you're going to let me go in there. yes you know your medicine made america in. chicago have this great you know i think everybody knew unions and the tax rates finish off the unions in america is lower than half of the middle class that's going to be is are not job created or they're going to just lay bare is there what is a job or kind of look at this being actually you know doing it really impacts your deal like we can see the people like you that haiti

he brought all of the republicans together.old us they have largely agreed on the policy issues within the continuing resolution. it is about the level of spending. we are committed. we are standing by our speaker and giving him the strength to negotiate as high as no. as possible in spending cuts. >> it seems like the state of play right now appears to be that we are looking at something around $30 billion in cuts with title 10 funded. would you vote for that? >> we are going to see what comes back for it. at this time, we do not know. but i can tell you this, we're going to cut every single dollar we can cut, and we are not going to stop there. we want to get into cutting the trillions, and we know that in the rye and budget, we are looking at $6.20 trillion. as you make the initial cuts in the ryan budget, those savings are going to compound every single year and it will get us on the road to a balanced budget. >> but that will not be on the cr. what do you think about the number 38? >> we will see. see whatng to wait and co

even the chamber of commerce is begging the republicans not to play games with the debt ceiling so why are they doing this and will it end up hurting them more in the end for more on this i'm joined from new york by erica payne founder of the agenda project and former senior strategist at the roosevelt institute erica welcome thank you nice to be here great to have you with us when push comes to shove you think that the republicans will really bring down the global economy if they don't hear what they want i don't think it really matters that push comes to shove i think what they've done already is really problematic they've clearly demonstrated that they have no business running a country this is this is not this is not something that you play with raising the debt limit is not an option you know if a tree falls on your house and you need to raise your credit card limit and other you thousand dollars to pay for the tree that just landed on your house you do it do you like doing it now is it something that's necessary to do absolutely and so the fact that they're saying in essence they

does that have a possibility of backfiring on republicans because it's republican governor that is are on the front lines of this fight? >> oh, absolutely. in fact, one of the first state senators that pushed for the very tough law that got passed in wisconsin, the first recall petition i think got legal ballot status today and a district obama had won so they risk seeing local gains eroded and i think that's where your real panic comes in. the presidential contest, important, but if they start losing control of the state legislatures, they start being in danger of losing the state houses, that's a real critical problem for the gop. >> chuck? >> chris -- >> look at ohio. we have talked about this. ohio, getting the referendum to repeal the law that the ohio governor signed this november, that is going to be a marquee, the super bowl of 2011. >> you know, what's interesting about this chris, i know you have talked to the same poll steriles that i have that talk about this underlying resentment that has grown from sort of underemployed or disappointingly employed americans with governmen

>> the republicans offered the country plan. everybody agrees that we are going over the cliff of financially unless we do something, and as soon. that is what you heard from the president's own deficit commission, the era of denial is over. republicans offered a series plan, obama gave a speech. that is what he does, that is all he knows how to do. >> series plan versus the speech, colby? >> i am not surprised to hear that characterization, even though i don't agree with that. paul mwai and's proposal what the impact that the president is talking about -- paul ryan a's proposal will have the back of the president is talking about. it is not about painting republicans as ogres. you will see a tremendous cut and energy, 70%, 25% cut in education, cuts in programs. those things are going to happen under his proposal. that is not a matter of makeup or mischaracterizing. it is what is going to happen. >> how do you have a serious debate about this, nina? >> well, i am not sure how did the debate gets serious. in some sense you reap

and inside of that document is basically the republican version of health care reform and the republican version of tax reform, and the republican version -- gwen: entitlement reform. >> -- of entitlement reform and energy reform. it is one big document and there are going to be pieces of that, especially tax reform, that the president has said i'm rather interested in that. so we have to be careful not to attack the whole if he wants to pull pieces out. >> it is worth, just as a viewer's guide, remarking on what we're about to get into here. we are about to talk talk about the role of government in the lives of americans, what the purpose is, do we have a safety net? who is it for? taxes. how much should they be, and what's fair? what is the american role in the world? and, by the way, what does the federal government have to do with the economy? i mean, every single philosophical -- >> and what is the government's responsibility to the old and the poor and the handicapped? >> in a time of huge deficit. gwen: when you look at a week like this and you look at the way the president -- per

they're not republicans as they were in 1995. they are reagan republicans. they are post-tea party republicans. they do not do earmarks. they do radical reforms. they will pass the ryan bill. that would have been unthinkable 10 or 20 years ago. is a different republican party. you have the senate divided against itself. 41 gusy can filibuster anything. the republicans can filibuster. they want to shrink the size of government. durbin can filibuster. we did not freeze at the higher level. we brought it to where republicans wanted it. the president wanted to add $40 billion to where we were. we went $40 billion below that. that was not a compromise. the president lost. the democrats lost the direction they wanted to go in. the republicans compromised. they did not get as much as they wanted, but it moved in their direction. that is what you are looking for. if taxes are going up, republicans are losing. if taxes are going down, democrats are losing. spending is going up, republicans are losing. there is real conflict there. this is why the president and senate

clarksville, tenn., a poll on the republican line. -- paul on the republican line. caller: i am glad that we have reached an agreement. but the democrats actually had power for two years, controlling the house, the senate, and the presidency, and decided to defer this until the republicans took office. when the president came out and said that spending was the central issue, they dealt with social issues like don't ask, don't tell instead of focusing on the budget. when they say they're meeting the republicans by more than halfway with the largest cuts in history, they are basing this off of a proposed spending bill that the president decided to put forward. they're not really meeting halfway. it is just a play on words. that is all i have to say. host: but it obama spoke briefly not long after john boehner did, saying he was happy with the results. i want to show you the president's comments next. >> good evening. behind me, through the window, to can see the washington monument. visited each year by hundreds of thousands from around the world. the people who trave

are you prepared, you the republicans, prepared to go to the republicans next fall and said we standand we will say we will cut entitlements? >> yes, chris. what we have said and what the ryan budget calls for are spending targets. what we get are on the discretionary and mandatory side of the ledger. as we know, the unfunded obligation on entitlement programs are so daunting. and causing global investors and americans to doubt whether the country can deal with the fiscal challenges. what we have said is this. we'll protect today's seniors and those nearing retirement. but for the rest of us, all of us, who are 54 and younger i know the programs will not be there for me when i retire. just like everyone else 54 and younger. they can't. they can't sustain the trajectory. we have to do what is necessary so our kids have the same opportunities we do. plain as that. >> chris: let's talk about the ryan budget. it would cut medicaid by $750 billion over the next decade. the non-partisan congressional budget office says if you take the medicare change changes, the premium support that some

caller: being a republican, i resent the way he treated republicans.here's one thing i would like to ask you. could you possibly get paul craig roberts, an economist, on? he probably has another book out. he is very wise about these things and i think he can contribute a lot to let people know what is going on. host: we will look into doing that. as a republican, do you feel the opinions are coming down along party lines? caller: i think so. are you still there? host: yes. caller: there's no way the republicans could -- we are not socialists. that's the best way i can put it. host: annapolis, maryland. willie on the line for democrats. caller: this lady on the think hens' side -- i did a great job. this country cannot go any further unless we do something to progress, not hold back. i would just like to say i think he did a very good job. if the republicans are mad, they have to be mad. forget the person that got us into it is ronald reagan. thank you for your time. host: beth is on our independent line. good morning. caller: i cannot believe some of t

and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture republican members of congress are starting to get grilled by their own constituents but leave it to the banks tears on wall street to come to their rescue i'll tell you why there are now paying people to push the g.o.p. agenda plus over seven hundred military documents released by wiki leaks should play embarrassing like i belonged on a mobile a one imprisonment involved a misunderstanding over a casio roots wrist watch and search engine google has been ordered by the spanish government to a race links about some spaniards i'll tell you why spanish officials claim they have the right to be forgotten. you need to know this republicans are getting renamed by their constituents in town hall meetings all across the nation the speaker of the house john boehner getting congress to weeks off members set out to reconnect with their districts and defend their votes in support of the paul ryan budget proposal that all the republicans voted for except for the privatizers medicare to pay for massive tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires

now the republicans are going to be demanding more. and even if it doesn't make sense necessarily to not raise the debt ceiling because we are talking a little bit of apples and oranges that is not going to be easy to communicate and boehner will be under tremendous pressure to do more. >> chris: you say "pressure to do more" because it turned out to be $350 billion? >> yes. >> chris: where is the basis for a deal? it seems that what the republicans are saying we need structural changes. we're not expecting the 2012 budget to be passed in the next two months but we need caps. some kind of assurance that we are on a downward path. >> let's just look at medicare. the public, the medicare cuts that ryan is proposing, those are for people down the road. not for people now. >> chris: years down the road. >> okay, but we have to have an honest conversation with the public. we have an aging population. we have skyrocketing medical costs. we have can't afford it anymore. we have to do something. you have can't just say we're going to hurt ever

that are trying to pull the republican party and even the democrat. party towards a more fiscally sound situation and of course they're just going bizerk over this and they should be tell me this the one thing that both of the parties i think are very happy that nobody seems to be wanting to mention is that suddenly defense spending isn't even an issue anymore suddenly both parties have completely shut up about the fact that everything should be on the table and they're very happy to let defense right on through scot free right now well that's i mean that is a shame because it does make up a huge part of the budget i think that you're restricting money from i mean it's not it's not the only place but it's definitely one of the places and i think that the problem is the optics nobody wants to say that they denied troops the funding that they needed because we have them in so many different places right now in the world it's very uncertain god knows that the next thing that happens is we have another flare up in the middle east where we have to respond