support me, if you support bernie sanders for president. you should pressure bernie to support these same ideas on guns. he is saying to hillary clinton supporters, hey, you may not support me for president. you may support hillary clinton for president. if so you should pressure her to support policies on guns. so that is an ernest effort from martin o malley, not just try to compete for the democratic nomination, which she s trying to compete for, but to make sure that the fact that he s in the race matters. is making the conversation. more substantive, on this policy issue. that honestly is how a part of politics is supposed to go. that s a sign of a good race well thought no matter who wins. when people who aren t winning can nevertheless inject substance and specificity where people might otherwise be able to get away with. so, good on martin o malley. in fact, today, hillary clinton
ballot initiatives, wasting their money on candidates that aren t winning. if you agree with me, a lot of men s are saying what am i paying for it? teachers, other mea members, know that the mea is telling them that the only time they can opt out is august and that s why we created the website, august opt-out.org because they have said their job is not to tell the members how to resign. you know what really upsets me too is our local and our mea director knew about thighs opt-out dates. we had a ratification meeting in august and they told they chose not to tell us.
continue on this spending binge that we have in washington and now it looks like the spend a who licks here, the president and the democrats in congress want another new credit card without any limits how they can spend the money. jon: do you think that the president is winning? well, we met with the president on friday. i don t think anyone wins. the american people certainly aren t winning. it is important that we get the government open again. the situation is that the american people know that we can not continue to spend at the rate that we re spending or the country is going to be bankrupt. we have a $17 trillion debt and what harry reid and the president have asked for is a new credit card. this would be the sixth time in just five years that the president wants a debt ceiling increase and the amount they want is a million dollars a minute for the next year, way beyond the 2014 elections.
here it comes. i ll just say it, not a good season for democrats. obama has not been a particularly effective salesman. he wasn t with the health care reform package and he read the country wrong saying my problem is i didn t explain it good enough. he s out there every day explaining stuff, campaigning for candidates who aren t winning. he s still much better than harry reid and nancy pelosi for sure but he, himself, is losing effectiveness because he is equating getting something done with getting something good done. there s a huge difference between those two things and i think the american people are detecting that difference and he is not and that s fundamental in 2010 as we look forward. we re going to keep you around. we re going to take a very quick break. the president did say something fascinating, also, a few moments ago about essentially some of the transparency getting lost in the process in the senate and paying a price for it. he took some responsibility for that.
thought no matter who wins. when people who aren t winning can nevertheless inject substance and specificity where people might otherwise be able to get away with. so, good on martin o malley. in fact, today, hillary clinton unveiled her own series of actions she says she could take on guns. a series of actions she says she could take on the guns issue with or without congress. hmm. these new proposals from secretary clinton today significantly ramp up her aggressiveness on this issue. she seems to be very well aware, by doing this had, particularly by saying i could do this without congress, she s seems very well aware she is inviting the hysteria the gun lobby is known for. she s not explicitly saying, bring it on. it s clear that democrats, including hillary clinton, are starting to see the gun lobby being mad at them as more a badge of pride than something to worry about anymore. also, what hillary clinton has just done this is fascinating she has just