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there had to be a government shutdown. it s likely the president will also reiterate the responsibilities of congress, which are to pass a budget and to pay its bills. this white house, as you re aware, has made it very clear they will not negotiate over the debt ceiling, and they re not going to support anything that the house republicans guided, egged on by the tea party republicans. the tea party conservatives have pushed them to do. the president has insisted that there has to be a clean resolution. that funds the government going forward. it s likely he will reiterate those points in the conversation with all americans coming up in a matter of moments from now. yet, pete, we have just heard, literally in the hour, speaker boehner say he s sending back a bill to the senate with a one-year delay of the individual mandate. and to get rid of the exemption for members of congress. there is very little compromise in what speaker boehner has sent back, is there? clearly, it s dejavu
indiscreet about your wisdom and your age. but you have witnessed several presidents making an appeal to the nation previously. but isn t this particular president undermined profoundly by the most recent military interventions in iraq and afghanistan? yes, he is. and i don t mind mentioning i was addressed in drafted into t war that president johnson was talking about there so i have a sense of dejavu when i hear presidents talk about we must act because the risk of enacting or inaction is much greater. that s the case that president obama has to make. and i don t think americans at this point are convinced of that. back in the days when we were fighting the commies, the world communist conspiracy efforts, that was the universal solvent as far as public opinion was concerned. as far as syria, we re talking about human rights concern, the case being made over and over again by president obama and the
plan to juice up the economy with billions of dollars in new spending. but look what s happening amid mandatory spending cuts. jobs are improving, housing is heating up, and the dow is taking off, charging past 15,000 this week. so gary b, is more spending the last thing we need right now? brenda, like dejavu all over again. they tried it with the stimulus. we still have, including people who have given up not looking for jobs, 14% unemployment! that s number one. two, in europe, austerity, you know what the countries that actually cut spending over there? they re the ones growing. most of the countries never cut spending over there. look, brenda, the government cannot create jobs. when you create a job, you re meeting a need. the government can t just say okay. now everyone needs green energy. so we re going to create jobs there. it just doesn t work. all they do is move money from
what kind much tax hike the republicans go on. gretchen: it feels like dejavu. ground hog dog. last year it the debt ceiling orificical cliff. it was the debt ceiling. steve: first fiscal cliff of our lifetime. gretchen: it feels like it has been here a longg time and they were talking about the importance of the day to get the bill actually through. i feel like they can jump through hoops and get past that, too. eric: had it has to originate in the house and sent over marked up to the senate and point being there is a lot of hoop to jump through. you know. rudy guiliani is on hannity last night. he was approached with the same sort of problem in new york city . listen to how he handled it i was given a report that said you have to raise taxes and said nothing about reducing spending.