ago? i did not know that. this is bad for the media. the word was non-pareill. i couldn t even pronounce it. i could spell it. there you go. very impressive. i don t see how we are ending any time soon. this is rolling into the debt ceiling t. white house is sort of bracing. i think they thought beaner would basically have conceded by now on the shutdown and moved the debt ceiling. the fact that he hasn t. they re assuming this is going long term. senate democrats are assuming this is going long term. republicans i talked to yesterday foley better yesterday than they have felt about their strategy in three days. they felt like yesterday was a good day for them at least on the pr front. so, obviously, well, because they felt they were able to do two things they believe. no. 1, beat up on harry reid,
him. in general you re not seeing the kind of aggressive opposition to president obama among democrats the way you are seeing john boehner essentially can t lead his caucus to do anything right now and it s hard to negotiate and really hard to lead a group that won t follow you. susan, republicans think they have the leverage here. do they? well, they do in one regard, yes, they have they have the checkbook. they have the debt ceiling. but they re playing a really dangerous game here. firms first of all, on the pr front, it doesn t look like they re being the party of fiscal responsibility when you say, all right, i ll default on our debt and that s a good solution. that absolutely makes no sense. but more importantly, that republicans have to realize if president obama doesn t come to the table, they are going to entering this alone. they are going to the dance floor by themselves and they will be held accountable for a government shutdown that will only cause much more problems
everybody and every single one of them went on local tv and local radio and said we have now passed a middle class tax extension, all the president has to do is sign it, you would have a totally different debate going on the next day. sean: this is what i feel is missing. the discussion, and as best i could, i m trying to explain it, about conservative prime princi, about what s al at stake, and ai hear is or i sense a fear they don t want to go over the cliff and i sense a fear on the pr front and just even the president with the whole language of the debate seems like a defeat to me. i don t understand why they haven t said from day one this is the path to a balanced budget that has to involve entitlement reform and spending reform. i went to analysis on monday and interviewed mitch daniels who has been a terrific governor. mitch needed $3 billion for capital to build roads and
everybody and every single one of them went on local tv and local radio and said we have now passed a middle class tax extension, all the president has to do is sign it, you would have a totally different debate going on the next day. sean: this is what i feel is missing. the discussion, and as best i could, i m trying to explain it, about conservative prime princi, about what s al at stake, and ai hear is or i sense a fear they don t want to go over the cliff and i sense a fear on the pr front and just even the president with the whole language of the debate seems like a defeat to me. i don t understand why they haven t said from day one this is the path to a balanced budget that has to involve entitlement reform and spending reform. i went to analysis on monday and interviewed mitch daniels who has been a terrific governor. mitch needed $3 billion for capital to build roads and
if congress does nothing, every family in america will see their taxes automatically go up at the beginning of next year. the president had a busy fiscal cliff day, also met privately with the ceo ofs of home depot, coca-cola and yahoo!. not to be out done on this pr front, house republicans made it public, hosting a group of nervous business leaders. they ve signed on to a campaign called fix the debt. they want big spending cuts to supplement the coming tax hikes. i m hopeful but i wouldn t put me anywhere near the optimistic category. we have a long way to go and a few days to get it done. don t forget that s erskine bowels. republicans are trying to put pressure on democrats even as