if this had been coming out of the financial crisis, if he basically said we now have to attend to our fiscal basis, to the foundations if you will of the american economy, and condition the american people, then a lot of people on the hill would have found their choices so different, because they would have read the polls. if the president shaped the political environment we would be in a different place right now. the president could have done other things, and he had pressures from his own party, from the left, which were unrelenting. as we sit here today, he is being constructive. he offered to compromise and take 75% spending cuts, and cuts in medicare and cuts in social security. all he needs is revenue in order to balance it out and make it fair and keep his side of the aisle intact. yeah, and you know, closing
savannah, the asian markets, a little jittery right now. but we re getting serious, down to the home stretch, and some very bad things people in the know, in the markets, very bad news. well, that s not a surprise. right? i mean, we ve known if we ve got this close that things would start to get bad, what, for months, and now we are this close. and we ve still got nothing. and things are starting to get a little edgy. what happened? why can these people not do a deal? bring it in for a landing? no. we are at that place now where, you know, where the fundamental ideological and political convictions of the two sides want proven to be unshakable have proven to be unshakable and they are now serenading each other and saying we fundamentally believe different things about the size and role of government, what this is all
how this place, the back swath of americans who are paying attention, for speaker boehner to say the president is worried about politic, that may or may not be the case but no one is suggesting that the republicans aren t worrying about politics. it s not that persuasive coming from any of those guys to point the finger and say you re playing politics. give me a break. everybody here is playing politics. simply on the substance of what boehner said, it s ridiculous. i mean, just on this one point, right, which is that the president the one thing that is absolutely just from any objective standpoint true is that having this debate again in january or february in 2012 is almost the only thing that s imaginable that s worse than what we re going through right now, because anybody who thinks that that would be a prettier or more productive process in the middle of a presidential election. it woob nightmare. with the iowa caucuses looming and election 11 moss aw months away is out o
confidence in the united states of america, in the dollar, in our political system? maybe in washington, d.c. they don t understand that we are literally in an economic fight for supremacy over the next century with china. maybe they don t understand the more this goes on the more we strengthen china s standing in the globe and the more we strengthen the right, and maybe they just don t get it? i wonder if they recognize the place, for speaker boehner to say the president is worried about politics, may may or may not be the case, but nobody is suggesting the republicans are not that worried about their politics, too. everybody here is playing politics. and it s on the substance of what boehner said. it s ridiculous. just on this one point which is that the president the one thing that is absolutely from an
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