This is the Cato Daily Podcast for Monday, October 11, 2010. I'm Caleb Brown.

According to the CNBC reporter Michelle Caruso Cabrera, the GOP has gone wrong on everything

from Medicare to immigration to education.

And getting those issues right, she says, means a serious vision for smaller government to deliver

greater prosperity.

Peruso Cabrera is author of the new book, You Know I'm Right.

We spoke after a forum for the book held at the Cato Institute last week.

Looking through your book, it seems to be almost a catalog of things that the right, for lack of a better term, gets wrong on

a regular basis.

You're talking about health care. Republicans have across the board said, well, you know, yes, we want to stop

Obamacare, but no, we don't want to cut Medicare. Immigration has been something that has really hurt, I think, maybe the long-term prospects

or Republicans.

Talk about those issues.

Yeah, I wrote the book because I was so frustrated that there didn't seem to be any party that

reflected my views of the world.

Now when a government stays out of my private life and out of my pocketbook and neither party. Even the party that was supposedly

of small government actually wasn't small government at least when it was

in power. So yeah, I don't see any answer really.

I think they're getting closer when it comes to spending.

In fact, both parties I think have finally kind of found religion so to speak when it comes to

spending because the electorate is so mad at them but I don't think they've made

yet the leap to the really hard choices that we all know are coming, you know, what to do about entitlements

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