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Finger Pointing Over Fiscal Cliff
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ConservativeHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie on efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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- Date Nov 12, 2012
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ConservativeHQ Chairman Richard Viguerie on efforts to avoid the fiscal cliff.
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Ready to compromise -- -- those conservatives are tired of Republican leaders compromising.
Joining us now Richard Gregory chairman and conservative HQ dot com one of the country's leading.
-- conservatives Richard good to have you with this always Billy Crystal was I'd -- Norma going to shock -- surprise you -- -- -- know this well.
Bill -- -- talking with Chris Wallace that the leadership of the Republican Party in the leadership in the conservative.
Acts -- a -- A -- a lot of millionaires.
You know like -- Well not -- all you know.
Compromise has come to mean.
One thing the news is I guess -- last fifty years and -- been involved in politics at the national level.
Means we grow government.
Recover -- on the size of the growth but you know at the end of the day.
The government power increases individuals -- reduced and and taxes go up in spending go up and we keep.
Kicking the can down the road here and people don't like that that's one reason why the Republicans.
Did so poorly in this election they have a very.
Toward image that the brand of the Republican Party needs major repair.
It looks like a lot of -- for a million.
Millions of folks in its interest and no one's talking about this took on this broadcast but it looks like they're Ron Paul supporters -- this one out.
It looks like evangelicals.
And large measures sat this one.
Terms social conservatives if you will.
-- I don't know about the rest of the conservatives but.
You know -- got to move ahead here with this in this country out of this report looming as and I love it and -- were blooming now goes with -- -- -- What are we to do give a -- give us Richard vagaries.
Resolution.
Of the fiscal -- And what looks to be the biggest tax cut our country's history of the onset of obamacare taxes some twenty of them.
And one point two trillion dollars -- would reduction in government spending at the same time.
So this is a it's it's a mess.
And we know -- as they say got all happening now yeah.
Both sides are posturing in if history's any guide moved it into the day.
The Republicans will basically cave and give and two something that the Democrats in system.
Democrats are not tougher Obama is it's tougher than the Republicans and you isolation are Harry Reid who knows about inflation nod as tougher tougher -- I'm not Smart as well now we're starting to say something -- -- -- here's -- -- what do you wanna do.
I mean we're looking at all of this we know what it is we just had that leading global economist for Citigroup for -- -- Bob tell us we're going to see.
You know over a 10% unemployment rate in this country are gonna see a 4% reduction in the economy at this thing goes over the -- I'm just want to know how Richard Gregory is gonna aboard that.
Well that it's not my job it's they're the Republican leaders of the when they got to send this message that John -- in the Mitch McConnell us.
And the other Republican leaders that got us into this mess -- -- job to get us out.
We have the rise the Tea Party in recent years -- the because of the failure Republican leaders in their failed for decades and decades in -- people are tired of it and that's what.
When they are the face the party it would a word 06 and 08 and 2012.
People reject them when the Tea Party and Rand Paul Ron Paul and Marco Rubio.
Seaport is the face of the opposition to the Democrats people respond they like that.
Now the Republicans have got themselves in a mess and I don't know how to get it out that -- -- job.
Our job is to try to primary these Republicans and take over the republic important that's what we get to do going -- Republicans are going to be in the wilderness the minority party as -- this present leadership is in part we have to.
Replace them and look forward to 2014.
And primary these -- failed Republican leaders.
Richard -- we thank you for being with us.
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