just the president s fault, it s all of your fault, and it actually makes compromise harder, because then everybody thinks they re winning, even if everybody s losing. yeah. if the markets really tank, a lot of people will be running for the hills on this if it does, it will be because the ratings agencies and the markets have seen no desire in this country, particularly among democrats, to make real changes, real cuts, entitlement cuts, that everybody understands is a source of the deficit. this argument that the ratings agencies will lower our ratings because of the extension of the debt extension, the boehner plan is not long enough is a phony. it s nice to see it s touching to see the democrats have all of a sudden become attached to the idea of certainty after injecting uncertainty on taxes, healthcare, regulation into our economy, month after month, for
bipartisan about some kind of compromise, a way a path forward that would merge parts of the boehner and reid plans. one is for a longer-term debt extension, you know, the reid plan takes us into 2013. of course the boehner plan takes us into january probably of 2012. that s a big sticking point. there are things called triggers which would you know, if people walked away from these committees, they re supposed to find more savings, without getting too into those details, there are sticking points, but there are ongoing discussions about getting to something before tuesday. those are involved some of the members of the gang of six are involved in those discussions. scenario durbin of illinois, senator chambliss, others are involved, and so are the senate minority leader and majority leader. i don t think we ll see if we see this projection in the senate tonight rejection in the senate tonight, i don t
say, you know what, it s not just the president s fault, it s all of your fault, and it actually makes compromise harder, because then everybody thinks they re winning, even if everybody s losing. yeah. if the markets really tank, a lot of people will be running for the hills on this if it does, it will be because the ratings agencies and the markets have seen no desire in this country, particularly among democrats, to make real changes, real cuts, entitlement cuts, that everybody understands is a source of the deficit. this argument that the ratings agencies will lower our ratings because of the extension of the debt extension, the boehner plan is not long enough is a phony. it s nice to see it s touching to see the democrats have all of a sudden become attached to the idea of certainty after injecting uncertainty on taxes, healthcare, regulation into our economy, month after month, for
republicans aren t going to get rid of the bush tax increases. okay, you got them. let s go do don t ask, don t tell. obama won by saying look, they ain t going to get that. deal with reality and get what we can get. if you appreciated that moment why didn t he come to this debate with that tone? he s trying to do something big in economic terms that was the right course for him politically, it s the right course. get it out so it s not an issue in the election. it s going to be front, center and all of the sidelines. the republicans are not gouk to give him a debt extension that goes into 2013. there s a problem here. i don t think it has to do with ideology because the one thing
say, you know what, it s not just the president s fault, it s all of your fault, and it actually makes compromise harder, because then everybody thinks they re winning, even if everybody s losing. yeah. if the markets really tank, a lot of people will be running for the hills on this if it does, it will be because the ratings agencies and the markets have seen no desire in this country, particularly among democrats, to make real changes, real cuts, entitlement cuts, that everybody understands is a source of the deficit. this argument that the ratings agencies will lower our ratings because of the extension of the debt extension, the boehner plan is not long enough is a phony. it s nice to see it s touching to see the democrats have all of a sudden become attached to the idea of certainty after injecting uncertainty on taxes, healthcare, regulation into our economy, month after month, for