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09-05-2001, 11:36 AM
This partial transcript from Hannity & Colmes, September 4, 2001 was provided by the Federal Document Clearing House.
Michael Reagan
COLMES: Whatever happened to that lock box and whatever happened to the promise they would not touch any of those moneys? Are you going to sit there and tell me they've been telling us the truth?
REAGAN: Alan, you know, maybe I have to tell you this, that, you know, this is still 2001. The Bush budgets haven't even been voted on yet. They won't be voted on -- they won't go into effect until October 1st.
And I'll make you a bet, Alan, that there's not one appropriations bill passed and in place by October 1st. We don't start the Bush budgets until October 1st of 2002.
COLMES: Yeah, but...
REAGAN: We're still living the Clinton years.
COLMES: That's not the point.
REAGAN: So, in reality -- in reality, there has...
COLMES: You know...
REAGAN: ... not been a vote, Alan -- there has not been a vote, Alan, yet on any of the issues that you're talking about.
COLMES: Michael -- Michael, you guys want to -- by the way, in terms of the Clinton years, you guys want to blame Clinton for the current economy, yet when the economy was good and Clinton was president, you just wanted to congratulate the Republican Congress.
REAGAN: But -- Alan...
COLMES: You gave the Congress credit when Clinton was president, and now that the economy's gone soft, it's Clinton's fault all of a sudden. I don't get that.
REAGAN: Alan -- Alan -- Alan, excuse me. I must have won the last argument because, all of a sudden, you changed the issue.
COLMES: No, no, no. I was just picking on one thing you said.
REAGAN: Now the reality is -- the reality of it -- the reality of it is, Alan. are we -- yes or no -- are we still in the last budget year of the Clinton administration? That's a yes or no question.
COLMES: You make a very good host. Yes, Michael, we still are. However, we have this...
REAGAN: Thank you very much.
COLMES: However -- however, Michael, we have this administration now softening its rhetoric about whether or not it's going to go into that, lock -- quote-unquote, "lock box."
You've got the White House acknowledging the numbers have changed. They're saying there's a $1-billion surplus, and the Congressional Budget Office, non-partisan, says there's going to be a $9-billion deficit. So I don't even know who we believe at this point.
But we know that the numbers that they're talking
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We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend to much." Ronald Reagan, 1982
"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." ~Ronald Reagan
We've long thought there were two things in Washington that are
unbalanced--the budget and liberals. Ronald Reagan
Michael Reagan
COLMES: Whatever happened to that lock box and whatever happened to the promise they would not touch any of those moneys? Are you going to sit there and tell me they've been telling us the truth?
REAGAN: Alan, you know, maybe I have to tell you this, that, you know, this is still 2001. The Bush budgets haven't even been voted on yet. They won't be voted on -- they won't go into effect until October 1st.
And I'll make you a bet, Alan, that there's not one appropriations bill passed and in place by October 1st. We don't start the Bush budgets until October 1st of 2002.
COLMES: Yeah, but...
REAGAN: We're still living the Clinton years.
COLMES: That's not the point.
REAGAN: So, in reality -- in reality, there has...
COLMES: You know...
REAGAN: ... not been a vote, Alan -- there has not been a vote, Alan, yet on any of the issues that you're talking about.
COLMES: Michael -- Michael, you guys want to -- by the way, in terms of the Clinton years, you guys want to blame Clinton for the current economy, yet when the economy was good and Clinton was president, you just wanted to congratulate the Republican Congress.
REAGAN: But -- Alan...
COLMES: You gave the Congress credit when Clinton was president, and now that the economy's gone soft, it's Clinton's fault all of a sudden. I don't get that.
REAGAN: Alan -- Alan -- Alan, excuse me. I must have won the last argument because, all of a sudden, you changed the issue.
COLMES: No, no, no. I was just picking on one thing you said.
REAGAN: Now the reality is -- the reality of it -- the reality of it is, Alan. are we -- yes or no -- are we still in the last budget year of the Clinton administration? That's a yes or no question.
COLMES: You make a very good host. Yes, Michael, we still are. However, we have this...
REAGAN: Thank you very much.
COLMES: However -- however, Michael, we have this administration now softening its rhetoric about whether or not it's going to go into that, lock -- quote-unquote, "lock box."
You've got the White House acknowledging the numbers have changed. They're saying there's a $1-billion surplus, and the Congressional Budget Office, non-partisan, says there's going to be a $9-billion deficit. So I don't even know who we believe at this point.
But we know that the numbers that they're talking
Transcript (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,33684,00.html) images/icons/grin.gif
We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend to much." Ronald Reagan, 1982
"It is not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it." ~Ronald Reagan
We've long thought there were two things in Washington that are
unbalanced--the budget and liberals. Ronald Reagan