Grimm on NY1

Interesting interview with Grimm on NY1's "Inside City Hall," though little new ground was broken. Here's the rundown:

1. Unprovoked at the start, Grimm said that he was eager to talk to Mayor Bloomberg over "security issues" affecting New York City from these "unfortunately relentless attempts, they don't seem to stop." Presumably, he is talking about terrorism.
2. When asked what his "first issue" would be, he said, "Jobs," but immediately connected the nation's sluggish job growth to "Obamacare" (his word). "We need to repeal or defund it," he said, adding that the GOP does need to "come to the table with solutions."
3. He attributed the Republican "wave" to the fact that "Americans don't want that [health] care."
4. He then segued to support for "extending the Bush tax cuts." He said he did not think families making more than $250,000 are rich.
5. He disagreed that the $700 billion in tax cuts would increase the deficit: "We saw this under Ronald Reagan. When we lower taxes, [small businesses] hire more people. It's a formula that works." He later said that controlling spending is a top priority. He said it would boil down to cutting "waste, programs that don't work and fraud."
6. He called "cap and trade" "another example of the last thing we need." He claimed that "many experts" say that "it won't do anything to help the atmosphere or Mother Earth." He also said that "even the Wall Street Journal" said it was another tax (even the Wall Street Journal? Even?).
7. Said we "really have to get away from this partisanship. At the end of the day, we want the same things: we want to be prosperous, we want our children to have more than we have, and we want to be safe."