for the debt mess and implying the real problem is the president himself. doug mcelway is live on capitol hill with more on this. reporter: strong indications that the gop is digging in its heels even more firmly has the debt ceiling clock particulars away from the august 2nd deadline. strong language coming from both houses of congress. listen to mitch mcconnell on the floor an hour ago. after discussions and months of negotiations, i have little question that as long as this president is in the oval office a real solution is unattainable. reporter: it makes the negotiation session coming up at the white house this afternoon potentially very awkward with. adding to the potential awkwardness of it all the remarks of house weaker john boehner. he met with republican leadership at a press conference this morning just about an hour ago as well. listen to his remarks.
the economy. brenda: okay, last word to caroline? well, i would say that we have been undertaxed, undertaxing our revenues have been low for two decades and we see that in our infrastructure system and it s getting worse because the fuel efficient vehicles and thank goodness we have them on the road and we need to come up with a more efficient way to tax. undertaxed? really? i m glad when it comes to roads we absolutely have been. and fix the roads, that s we re teasing you a bit. carol. throwing granny off the cliff, the new political scare ad that neil s gang says just killed any hopes to fix our debt mess. but first, do you think unions are getting a helping hand from the white house now? wait until they start writing the president s budget. why a new push to unionize the office of management and budget has critics fearing a new spending explosion is ahead. what s so special about
pearl harbor day. pearl harbor. my question to you is they went on the attack against the s&p today. they said the s&p statement was politically timed. maybe it was. last wednesday we saw the president lashing out on a campaign speech and getting nasty with the republicans and say tax the rich. secretary geithner said you can have it all, just tax the rich. and the s&p comes along and says that won t work. taxing the rich will not work. you are in a debt mess. we have the worst deficit of any liberalized democracy except japan. we are the worst. we ve been embarrassed by this. what did you think of that, and what did you think of the s&p and what did you think of the lashing out? this seems to be the lashout of me, karl rove, fox radio, anything they disagree with, but the s&p? i found that strategy.
now my question to you is, they went on the attack against the s&p today. see geithner? yes. they are saying the s&p statement was politically timed. maybe it was. last wednesday we saw the president lashing out in a campaign speech getting nasty with the republicans and saying, tax the rich. over the weekend, treasury secretary geithner said you can have it all, just tack the rich. s&p comes along and says wait a minute that won t work. taxing the rich will not work. you are in a debt mess. we have the worst deficit of any industrialized liberal democracy, except japan. we are the worst. we ve been embarrassed by this. sean: what did you think of that dana? what did you think of the lashing out? this seem to be the modus operandi, fox, me, karl rove, anybody they disagree with. but the s&p? i found that strategy they always have to have an
they re rich, they re $130 a barrel for brent. they have the money. they should be paying us to help them, and they can pay us with oil or car. the they. brenda: i ve got to get to jonas, jonas, go ahead. first of all, the oil rich nations are not going to get us to pay the oil rich nations that are run by kingdoms. why not? who will pay for it. the countries not as broke as us, china, japan, we ve got an expensive. brenda: we ve got to go, thank very much and thanks to malia we appreciate having you. now, we know all of this budget talk can be a little boring, but enough to put our own vp to sleep? the name to wake him up and maybe get us all out of this debt mess.