This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Friday, August 27th, 2010.

I'm Caleb Brown.

Newt Gingrich goes on national television and rejects cuts to Social Security.

Mike Pence goes on national television and has trouble naming one government program

he'd cut.

If leading Republicans are serious about cutting government, why aren't they saying

how they do it?

J.P. Frere is associate editor of commentary, the Washington Examiner.

He says the current GOP strategy of simply not being the other guys just isn't enough

if the GOP wants a mandate to govern.

The GOP has very little credibility when it comes to being able to rent in government spending.

For one thing, this is actually a pretty great example.

The Christian Science Monitor covered a speech that House Minority Leader John Boehner

gave in Ohio, I think it was Ohio, and they had actually removed a very important word

from a line where he said something along the lines of we can't, we can't cut, we shouldn't cut spending we should cut irrational spending now what he had

actually said was we can't just cut spending we need to cut irrational

spending which is it which is a good point.

But the fact that people were willing to jump on this and start criticizing him,

and I was in a room filled with people who were sort of upset about this

and they were beginning to demand answers because this is just the sort of thing he might have said even if it wasn't it.

So that shows an example of how truly incredible these people are or uncredible.

I'm going to learn the difference between those two words soon, a promise.

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