feel alienated they are not going to vote, from what we ve been hearing and reporting today, for this solution. a lot of them didn t vote to raise the debt ceiling last time. 66 republicans voted against the hike. it shouldn t be news to wall street and investors that there is a caucus that doesn t care, right? but they are not essential to votes. what i find so amazing and if you can speak to, how long we can go on without having democracy function on the house floor, have these exercises and then the solution at the end is the very same thing that could have prevented this all in the beginning, which is let a majority vote on the house floor and let the alienated tea party vote. john boehner can t afford a partisan party. they have power because they are members of the house of representatives, he s straddling two very difficult things here. and i m not sure there s a way
information helps hold me accountable, helps hold our government accountable and helps our democracy function. and the whole reason i got involved in politics is because i believe so deeply in that democracy and that process. president obama speaking today. is he right about his own articulated history. he has been making the case about the importance of our open government from the very beginning. it was certainly a big part of why he ran for president. i ll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people s business. a justice once said sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. so that s part of why we ve had so much trouble is we haven t invited the american people to participate in the process. that s why i always focus on accountability and transparency in our government. that is how he ran for
information helps hold me accountable, helps hold our government accountable and helps our democracy function. and, you know, the whole reason i got involved in politics is because i believe so deeply in that democracy and that process. obama speaking today. he s right about his own articulated history. he s been making the case about the importance of our open government from the very beginning. it was certainly a big part of why the ran for president. i ll make our government open and transparent. so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people s business. justice brandeis once said, sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. that s part of why we had so much trouble is we haven t invited the american people to participate in the process. that s why i always focus on accountability and transparency in our government. that is how he ran for
accountable, helps hold our government accountable and helps our democracy function. and the whole reason i got involved in politics is because i believe so deeply in that democracy and that process. president obama speaking today. is he right about his own articulated history. he has been making the case about the importance of our open government from the very beginning. it was certainly a big part of why he ran for president. i ll make our government open and transparent so that anyone can ensure that our business is the people s business. a justice once said sunlight is the greatest disinfectant. so that s part of why we ve had so much trouble is we haven t invited the american people to participate in the process. that s why i always focus on accountability and transparency in our government.
dependent on those folks being able to operate with confidence that folks back home have their backs. so they re not just left out there high and dry and potentially put in even more danger than they may already be. so i make no apologies and i don t think the american people would expect me as commander in chief not to be concerned about information that might compromise their missions or might get them killed. now, the flip side of it is we also live in a democracy where a free press, free expression and the open flow of information helps hold me accountable, helps hold our government accountable and helps our democracy function. and, you know, the whole reason i got involved in politics is because i believe so deeply in that democracy and that process. so, you know, the whole goal of