This Week with George Stephanopoulos – December 9, 2012

Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK)

Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-TX)

Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI)

Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ)

Paul Krugman

James Carville

Mary Matalin

Matthew Dowd

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Stephanopoulos: omg the fiscal cliff will

doom us all!

Audience: yikes

Stephanopoulos: Jeb will you ever agree

to raise taxes on the rich?

Hensarling: Obama lied in the election!

It's a bait and switch!

Stephanopoulos: so will you raises taxes or not?

Hensarling: no because we did a study

and it turns our people don't like taxes

Stephanopoulos: I see

Hensarling: taxes are irrelevant to the debt

Stephanopoulos: what will it take for

you to agree to raise taxes?

Coburn: only if Obama agrees to eliminate Social Security

Stephanopoulos: it's a plan

Coburn: the Chinese will take over America!

Stephanopoulos: oh my

Coburn: let's be honest with the American people –

you are going to have to suffer -

if you are not rich and are on Medicare and Medicaid

Stabenow: we already cut $700 billion from

Medicaid and Republicans demagoged

it all during the election!

Stephanopoulos: that was before

Stabenow: will the rich sacrifce or

just the poor and middle class!

Grijalva: businesses don't need tax cuts

- they need customers

Stephanopoulos: what do you suggest

Grijalva: stop giving away money

to rich companies

Stephanopoulos: Obama says he also

won't debate the debt ceiling

Hensarling: we need to threaten to default

on our debts as a speed bump on the road

to becoming Greece

Stephanopoulos: wow

Hensarling: America is on the road to bankruptcy!

Stephanopoulos: Mitt Romney ran against

cutting Medicare

Coburn: because Obama didn't cut it enough!

Stephanopoulos: I see

Coburn: Social Security will be

bankrupt is about 2 years

Stephanopoulos: please continue

Coburn: we're spending money we don't

have on luxuries we don't need and

by the way all this began in 2009

Stabenow: I would just like to note that

the GOP want to give rich people another

tax cut and if they don't get it the middle class

will get a massive tax increase

Grijalva: hey remember when Republicans

borrowed money from the Chinese to fight two war?

Coburn: nope

Hensarling: doesn't ring a bell

Stephanopoulos: thanks for coming

[ break ]

Stephanopoulos: so panel can Congress and

the President ever make an agreement?

Will: America used to be great and

now it isn't and also Americans are

selfish lazy bastards

Krugman: the real problem is that

Republicans are fucking crazy

Stephanopoulos: that is an interesting point

Matalin: Republicans have offered very

specific tax increases

Krugman: no they haven't

Matalin: it isn't fair that people in

Congress get to decide the laws

Carville: I love my wife but she is lying

Matalin: you're not getting any sex tonight lizard-boy

Carville: fine with me Gulch

Krugman: cuts to Medicare only affect providers

Matalin: they affect patients!

Krugman: she's lying again

Dowd: I speak for the American people

and they need to sacrifice

Stephanopoulos: no one likes sacrifice

Will: it is wrong to spend more than we

take in except under Saint Reagan

Will: we need to enact the Ryan budget

Krugman: that budget is a total fantasy –

it counts revenues from Unicorn Races 

and Dragon oil!

Carville: the rich have gotten everything –

wars, tax cuts, bailouts – I'm goddam sick of it!

Dowd: both sides are equally to blame! 

Shared sacrifice!

Carville: Matt will yah please do

mah the honah of kissin' mah Cajun ass?

Matalin: Obama caused the recession of 2008!

Stephanopoulos: good point Mary

Matalin: Keynesian is lunacy!

Krugman: I really need to start drinking

before I come on this show

Carville: mah choice is meth

Matalin: I only use heroin from Amsterdam

Dowd: airplane glue is the best

Stephanopoulos: weed works for me

Will: I'm strictly old school – bourbon and painkillers

Stephanopoulos: and that's the show

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