in a different fashion for the benefit of the american people, given the problems that we face. and i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that he hasn t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. and committed to do so. and as i told the president, i think helping us find common ground. i think that there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to actually commit to work together, to try to deal with these problems. and they understand that these aren t times for us to be playing games. well, a day after both sides agreed to work out a compromise on taxes, senator mcconnell sends his letter and boehner says this today on the situation room. i don t know what my colleagues across the aisle didn t hear during the election. american people spoke pretty loudly. they said stop all the looming tax hikes and cut spending.
benefit of the american people, given the problems that we face. and i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that he hasn t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. and committed to do so. and as i told the president, i think helping us find common ground. i think that there was a sincere effort on the part of everybody involved to actually commit to work together, to try to deal with these problems. and they understand that these aren t times for us to be playing games. well, a day after both sides agreed to work out a compromise on taxes, senator mcconnell sends his letter and boehner says this today on the situation room. i don t know what my colleagues across the aisle didn t hear during the election. american people spoke pretty loudly. they said stop all the looming tax hikes and cut spending. obviously that wasn t on the
together. a lot of times coming out of these meetings both sides claim they want to work together then head out to the microphones trying to win the news cycle instead of solving problems. they understand these aren t times for us to be playing games. see, it says to serve man here. that s good, right? republicans understand these are not the times for us to be playing games. i was assured by these republican leaders that this meeting that they re not going to come out here to these microphones, not going to come out here and win the news cycle, not going to talk smack about me, we re going to work together, work together to serve man. i was encouraged by the president s remarks regarding his, perhaps, not having reached out enough to us in the last session. i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that they haven t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us. these guys were all
with a spirit of trying to work together. a lot of times coming out of these meetings both sides claim they want to work together then head out to the microphones trying to win the news cycle instead of solving problems. they understand these aren t times for us to be playing games. see, it says to serve man here. that s good, right? republicans understand these are not the times for us to be playing games. i was assured by these republican leaders that this meeting that they re not going to come out here to these microphones, not going to come out here and win the news cycle, not going to talk smack about me, we re going to work together, work together to serve man. i was encouraged by the president s remarks regarding his, perhaps, not having reached out enough to us in the last session. i agree that the president did make an important point that eric mentioned that they haven t spent as much time with us reaching out and talking to us.