Not telling the american people the truth and it s reprehensible. would you be willing to vote for it if it was billions of dollars given to victims without an offset somewhere else. i said early on i didn t want to bicker about the offsets to make sure those that needed the aid. however, it s responsible if we found an offset in time to do so. alisyn: democrats don t like that offset. i don t like the fact that we have 14.3 trillion dollars of debt. alisyn: they don t want this tied to the budget battle. they just want the victims to get the money. no, i don t, they already agreed to this prior to nancy pelosi starting to play politics. again, on the floor of the house, roll back the tape. it s there. a colloquy between their whip. and you re saying they agreed before the . that s right. alisyn: nancy pelosi got involved, we funded two wars
We don t need a cleaver approach. we need a scalpel where we cut where we can and invest where we must. gretchen: let s listen to david axelrod. i want to get congressman ginta s response. the fact is this is essentially a tea that s right downgrade. the tea party brought us to the brink of a default. that clearly is on the backs of those who were willing to see the country default, those very strident voices in the tea party. gretchen: congressman, was david axelrod talking about the tea party s entire motivation, which is to cut spending, that that caused the downgrade, or the tea party s short of gridlock in government, at least some people see it that way? david s job is to politicize a very serious and important debate. this is not a manufactured crisis. $14.3 trillion in debt is real. the tea party, like many americans, want the truth. they deserve to know the truth.
President, blah, blah, blah. even takes a swipe at gop frontrunner mitt romney. i do not have respect for what he s done through this debt increase debate. we are on the road to 2012 and hannity starts right here, right right now. sean: president obama is giving him a not so well-deserved pat on the back that the hour in the form of a lavish birthday, in light of the u.s. passing 14.3 trillion in debt, the dow crumbling, millions out of works, and the country flirting with a double-dip recession, perhaps the president could find a better way to spend his time, however yet he turns his back on the american people and the american economy, instead attending a star-studded birthday fundraiser, headlined by jennifer hudson, held in a $40,000 a night ballroom, charging more than $35,000 per person for admission. by the way, you can pay an extra
Today is where we were when we were building these projects. they re preparing for the 21st century, predominance in the 21st century. you go to singapore. mika s father came back from singapore. the infrastructure there is absolutely remarkable. investing in infrastructure, that s not going to damage us as far as the debt goes. structurally over the next 30, 40 years, that s not the challenge. the challenge comes in a lot of other areas. you re right, we have got to re-invest in roads and bridges and our trains and our power grid. all of these things. there are arteries of commerce the president tried to put the focus on jobs yesterday after months of negotiations and political rhetoric and just hours before the midnight deadline congress passed legislation to raise the nation s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. the senate voted to approve the deal, 74-26, guaranteeing that the united states will not default on its obligations.
Infrastructure that s not going to damage us as far as the debt goes. drug over the next 30 or 40 years that s not the challenge. the challenge comes in a lot of other areas. you re right we have to reinvest in roads, in bridges, our trains, our power grid and all of these things because there are arteries of commerce the president rides once again to put the focus on jobs yesterday after months of negotiations and political rhetoric and hours before the midnight deadline congress passed legislation to raise the nation s $14.3 trillion debt ceiling. the senate voted to approve the deal 74-26 guaranteeing the united states will not default on its obligations. president obama signed the bill into law in the early afternoon. seen here without observe errs or fan fare.