meeting. people were frank. we discussed the various options available to us. everybody reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt limit ceiling so that the full faith and credit of the united states of america is not impaired. this is the new normal, of course. welcome to the boehner era. republicans have decided they won t negotiate without one hand on the detonator. let s remember because it cannot be said enough what s happening now is not what we think of traditionally as negotiating, a little of this, a little of that, nobody gets everything but everybody gets something. what the republicans are demanding is that the democratic president and the democratic-led senate adopt the grover norquist position on taxes, which is no net tax revenue increase whatsoever, at all, full stop. this is an extreme right-wing position far beyond the bounds of normal american politics over the last several decades and now not only the dominating
more competitive in the future. and, as i said, we have had some good meetings, we had a good meeting here yesterday with leaders of both parties inness could, and, while real differences remain we agreed to work through the weekend and meet back here on sunday. the sooner we get this don the sooner that the markets know the debt limit ceiling will have been raised, and, that we have a serious plan to deal with our debt and deficits, and, the sooner that we give our businesses the certainty that they will need in order to make additional investments to grow and hire and, will provide more confidence to the rest of the world as well, so that they are committed to investing in america. and the american people sent us here to do the right thing, not for party but for country. so, we re going to work together, to get things done on their behalf. that is the least they should expect of us.
to work right now and make us more competitive in the future. as i mentioned, we ve had some good meetings. we had a good meeting here yesterday with leaders of both parties in congress. and while real differences remain, we agreed to work through the weekend and meet back here on sunday. the sooner we get this done, the sooner that the markets know that the debt limit ceiling will have been raised and that we have a serious plan to deal with our debt and deficit, the sooner that we give our businesses the certainty that they will need in order to make additional investments to grow and to hire and will provide more confidence to the rest of the world as well so that they are committed to investing in america. now, the american people sent us here to do the right thing not for party but for country. so we re going to work together to get things done on their behalf. that s the least that they
count. casey anthony will not walk from court today a free woman but she will be released from jail next week for time served and for good behavior. and blastoff or bust? the latest on the atlantis launch and the future of the space program with former nasa administrator sean o keefe. good day. i m andrea mitchell live in washington. we are expecting president obama will come into the briefing room at any moment. there is the president. let s go to the briefing room. all the congressional leaders from both chambers, from both parties, and i have to say that i thought it was a very constructive meeting. people were frank. we discussed the various options available to us. everybody reconfirmed the importance of completing our work and raising the debt limit ceiling so that the full faith and credit of the united states of america is not impaired.
stewart, the money will never get used to lower the deficit once washington pencils in a number. that s it. we ve seen the debt limit ceiling get raised time and again. but to steve s point, what i favor instead of returning the money to the state is to give those people in the state that rejected the money a tax cut of equal amount. by the way, i don t think that rubio was in office when that bailout of the banks bill was passed. what do you say no, he was the health care official when the health care fraud happened under him. he made millions on that fraud. sorry. i missed that. what do you say? i say a lot of this spending originally had a false premise. remember, this was the boondoggle about shovel ready projects and how we were going to deficit spend our way to prosperity and all this nonsense. now what we re going to say is some governors are refusing some of these boondoggles, so what we should do is finance other boondoggles? i don t think so. we should pay down th