>> 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

>> 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

republicans and religion will never be out of our schools if republicans have anything to do with it and it's daily take state conservatives are laundering money from huge corporations to keep schools faith based. whose screwed seniors one thing that paul ryan isn't touting in the republican budget that he wrote with john boehner and 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 dollar tax hike on america's senior citizens. of the center for economic policy and research shows that if the republican budget plan isn't acted it 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 will go straight into the bank accounts of the for profit health insurance companies and likely bonuses for their multi-millionaire exe

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.

host: susan, republican line, new jersey. good morning. well let's try? republican line?et's move on. salem, indiana. good morning. caller: how is it going dempster -- how is it going? the republicans have not produced any one that can be a match for obama. for the cards he has been dealt, he has done a good job. the republicans are like -- everything obama says, whether he is right or wrong, they want to counteract them, even when he makes the right decision. as soon as he goes in, republicans say they should but. obama is doing a great job and i do not think that a republican has been produced to counter his presidency. host: who do you think, on the republican side, could best challenge president obama on that issue? caller: if you look at the libyan crisis, civilians are being killed. he took swift action to prevent that from happening. first the republicans wanted us to go into libya, and as soon as we go in and they start to criticize him. they are very which she washy. -- wishy washy. host: we will keep talking about this this morning on open quote washington journ

. >> 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

republican stock about making cuts. we hear from the left -- republicans talk about making cuts. it is to the point where how they play the race card. we have to put more into education in this country. we rank near the bottom. money is not the issue. look at all schools. they operate most on a shoestring budget. they produce kids that are more than prepared for the upper level education. we need across-the-board cuts, probably 20% and a flat tax. host: is that part of the discussion? guest: absolutely. republicans were tryingo figure out what the plan was. of the votes said let's cut $61 billion. but what to cut another $22 billion in across-the-board cuts. some did not support that. they did not le an across-the- board concept. they thought it was mindless. are some things more important than others. you cannot just do it with a meat cleaver. have to do it with a scalpel. host: we have another tweetrom maverick. guest: a comter service. that is a very big issue. i remember in the 9/11 commission, one of the discoveries was the fbi did not have search capacities on their compute

that's the republican majority. the seniors of america, the republicans are proposing to end medicare as we know it. the privatization of medicare, giving every senior in this nation an $11,000 voucher so they can then go and negotiate with the greed of the health insurance companies. . if you want to live to be 65 and finally have a health insurance policy you can count on, don't look to the republicans. because they intend to terminate medicare as we know it. and turn over the well-being, the health and indeed the life of every senior to the vagrancies, to the rapacious profit orientation of the health insurance industry, that's what's going to happen if the republicans get their way. we'll do everything we can to stop it. and we will also do everything we can to build the american middle class. >> will the gentleman yield? mr. garamendi: i would be delighted to. >> isn't it also accurate that at the same time they're cutting medicare and changing it -- ms. sutton: and removing the guarantee that seniors have know

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

republicans -- 81% said that republicans -- not surprising. the independents are almost an even split. the crucial independents are evenly split on this question. the spending cuts -- democrats versus republicans. do they go far enough? it suggests that, in the april 5 poll, 45% of the democrats in congress do not go far enough, according to the public. republicans in congress -- april 5 -- 30% say they are going to far. 25% in february said they were going too far. another poll from the "wall street journal," findings from the latest washington journal -- "wall street journal" poll. 60% of democrats are told -- 68% of democrats are told to make compromise. 30% of republicans are told to make compromise. those in the tea party are saying hold fast when they look at these numbers. what is your message to congress on this budget debate? next up is baltimore, phil, a republican. phil is not there. let's move on to fayetteville, north carolina. caller: good morning. i want to know from your conservative listeners how they feel about the united sta

they did more than meet the republicans halfway.he republicans are using basically the same playbook they've always used which is, if we don't get it our way, if we don't get things done the way we want it done, we'll shut down the government and create chaos. i think what the president and democrats tried to do is show the republicans we'll continue these investments in the key programs that will continue 13 months of job growth. democrats understand the challenges the country face. that's why we cannot come to the table saying -- >> do you think the president came in early enough? did he show leadership? a lot of democrats saying he was parachuting in at the last moment and complaining. >> you know, you heard last week when mr. boehner and mr. reid said, will the president tell us to go off and cut this deal and come back? the president was in the room. he doesn't have to be at the table every day. but bill daly was at the table. gene sperling and all of the other people, jack lew, that understand the details of what has to be wor

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

, a republican president. former administrators of 9 e.p.a., republicans -- of the e.p.a., republicans, rucklehaus and whitman, just brought a beautiful op-ed in the washington post -- i believe it was "the washington post," or "the times" i'm not sure which, in which they clearly say, please, this is a bipartisan matter. but yet the republicans want to in h.r. 1 and do stop the e.p.a. from enforcing clean air law, which will make our skies dirtier, our kids get more asthma, premature deaths and all the rest. so big surprise that we voted it down over here. it only got 44 votes. it's radical. it's radical. and we can meet them way more than halfway, we already have, without hurting our people and still getting the budget cuts that we need. well, i'm here to say it has now been 35 days, 35 days since the senate passed s. 388. what is s. 388? senate bill 388 says if there is a shutdown, members of congress and the president will not receive their pay. why do i think this is important? because most people don't k

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

during the republican eisenhower administration had a republican congress yet it's x. rated 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 six point six yeah right how could you travel right bowling we are only those numbers held right up pretty much until reagan had the world were competing that we chinese and indians of the world and places like yours would see with governments of the world right as china is also dies as a synonym for psuedo lynch who would say i will be below us is your very lame you're going to be all right. yes and you know you miss the main american people know them shipping our go have this great you know i think i really do unions and i don't know your tax rate finish off the unions in america is low down to the middle class or that's crazy that is our next job creating jobs left there is erica one has a jogger to look at that being actually doing it we're going to actually feel like we can see the people

tell the republicans that they are delusional if they believe that republican -- that the republicanudget plan is sound. at the same time, he needs to have a budget plan that he can lay out that will show all of the americans did it is all of our responsibility on this budget thing. and on the spending. we have all got a stake in it. host: more from "the washington post" version of this story. host: here is more from eric cantor yesterday on the debt ceiling. >> unless we act and unless we act deliberately, our kids will not have " we have. it is as plain and simple as that. this spending deal this week is only the beginning. this is the first bite at the apple. this is about making the right decisions now. we have the right and budget up this week, laying out the plan for how we will deal with the challenges in this country. we have the debt vote coming in several weeks as well. that is about dealing with the fiscal mismanagement of the past. there is no way that the republicans are going to support increasing the debt limit without guaranteed stepped in place to make sure that spen

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

this referendum. >> well, there's republicans, and then there's republicans. i think 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. @@ >>> we did what our staff voted our least articulate political analysis ever on this show recently. when i had the brilliant idea to say on the air that president obama in

democrats and republicans working together. republicans winning amendments. democrats winning amendments. democrats losing amendments. republicans losing appeds. it made me proud to be a -- amendments. it made me proud to be a representative and serve in this body much it was the best work product this house put together. we sent it to the senate 41 days ago. they defeated it. they have to act. they defeated our bill, h.r. 1, they defeated a democrat bill, and they have done nothing. i got a call earlier today, i held up a board just like this, talking about what the senate had done. well, there's nothing on this sheet of paper. you hold up the wrong sign. no, it's the right sign. nothing, nothing have we received from the united states senate. it's the same on both sides. blank. how in the world are we supposed to fund this government with nothing from the united states senate? this bill does two things and two things only, madam speaker. it says, senate act. you don't have to act like us. act like democrats. just act. act. do something. send us something. b

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

"the wall street journal" argued for a robust unified voice from republicans saying republicans ought to prod president obama to push for a faster resolution that ends with toppling of gadhafi and his sons from power. it represents a divided libya short of that. if there is any leader whose terrorist nature the american people understand it is gadhafi. should that be the view of the republican party to topple him? is that realistic? >> i do think gadhafi remaining in power is not an option. it's not an option. this isn't a republican issue or democrat issue or obama issue versus john boehner issue, this is an american issue. >> how do you get him out? >> continued sustained efforts here. the rebels are getting better organized. we're putting lots of pressure for defections and people in the regime have to make choices. they are going to have to decide do they want to be prosecuted when this is all over for war crimes or do they want to defect early on and be part of the solution for the future of libya? believe me, that's an intense amount of pressure. he's running out of money. the u

what can persuade the republican voters and others to vote for republicans. it does not put the emphasis on rebuilding the infrastructure, that and articulate republican ideals. star guest: in to resemble the ringling brothers circus. and where does bachmann come in. host: let's go to california. what is on your mind today. caller: i think it is absurd, states cannot do it alone. it is another divided and conquered by the insurance companies who incidently control the whole issue. they have probably intimidated obama to a certain point. obamacare, the term really trivializes the issue. you recall the massachusetts plant rand paul -- romneycare? we cannot have this kind of non-i thought, non-logic in the country and release survive. we need universal health care. guest: i think the caller raises a good point. aspersions aside, which i do not have any place in politics or this conversation, you do have some candidates who are here responsibly characterizing things it in a way that is inaccurate. you saw that in 2010. whether it is that the panel or other things

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

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