our wonderful studio audience, austin, president obama, the fact we re here today to debate raising america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. a sign the u.s. government can t pay its increased $3.5 trillion with a t to $8.6 trillion. a hidden domestic enemy and says all of the debt was irresponsible. my question is that he didn t vote to raise the debt ceiling. why so angry at republicans? i m not an angry person. i won t say i m angry. you re not. i would make two points on this. the first is in 2006, the democrats were in the minority. there was no chance they can block the debt keeling if every republican in the senate said we want to be able to get up, and condemn the president and vote against the debt ceiling boy have no problem with that. because there won t actually be any threat of going over the cliff of the debt ceiling.
today pay our debt and obligations. president obama said in 2006 the fact we are here today to debate america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. he said it is a siep that the u.s. government can t pay its own bills. over the past five years the federal debt increase ed $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion, trillion with a t. this rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy. vote ed against the debt ceiling like hillary and kerry and every democrat. funny either all running for president. he was paying presidential politics. the crack about bush being unpatriot ohh i ic. you re lecturing me and your president is claiming doom and gloom. one word for that. it s hypocrisy. what is hi pock uh si about
today pay our debt and obligations. president obama said in 2006 the fact we are here today to deb america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. he said it is a siep that the u.s. government can t pay its own bills. over the past five years the federal debt increase ed $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion, trillion with a t. this rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy. vote ed against the debt ceiling like hillary and kerry and every democrat. funny either all running for president. he was paying presidential politics. the crack about bush being unpatriot ohh i ic. you re lecturing me and your president is claiming doom and gloom. one word for that. it s hypocrisy. what is hi pock uh si about
bills. i therefore, intend to increase america s debt limit. we re back with the panel. he asked about that previously has said it s a political stand. it was a stand that you make when you re in politics and tha in politics. and the white house has tried to explain that numerous times. the vote on that debt ceiling increase was 52 to 48. so it wasn t like they were 72 it was kind of close. well, no one likes to vote for the debt ceiling when they re in the minority or ja , majority, whether republican or democrat. they know this time at $17 trillion in debt that those polls are consistent, always 62, 61, 63 percent. the public will insist on a trade for an increase. by the way, it was $8.6 trillion back when he voted not
seen before. let s yes mind people what he said in 2006. first the fact we are here today to debate raising america s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure, a sign the u.s. government cannot pay its bills. over the past five years our federal debt increased by $3.5 trillion to $8.6 trillion. that s trillion with a t. this rising debt is a hidden domestic enemy. then he said this during the campaign. watch this. hang on a second. he called the republicans unpatriotic, irresponsible for increasing the debt to $9 trillion. now we are voting on a debt limit that will hit $16.5 trillion or $17 trillion. the problem is the way bush has done it over the last eight years is to take out a credit card from the bank of china in the name of our children, driving up our national debt