the fault off the table, but we can start to make a change. so let me go at this a different way. a plan that would onlynly guarantee cuts and a debt iling into early next year? makes no sense.e and he was clear about about that, but let me explain why it is responsible. we started this process sevenrov months ago. were we are seven months later and running out of runway. i never thought they wouldy take it this close to the edge t and let politics get in the ihe billof demonstrating we will pay our bills on time. 2 has taken us six, sevenat months. the idea that we are going to spend another seven months lifting the cloud of defaultmeri from the american economy, it seems irresponsible and bad for the economy. we don t think that makes sense. there is no reason we have to do it that way. here is what we don thes w understand. u i understand trying to get past 2012.o you don t want to do this d again. there are also political
here is what we don thes w understand. u i understand trying to get past 2012.o you don t want to do this d again. there are also political considerations.ical if i may ask the questions, sir.ask the que there is political considerations as well, butoures what you are saying is you would ensure hitting the debt ceiling now just to make sure y you don t possibly hit the t debt ceiling early next year. let me say it again.ou if you can get a thing thattl will kick this can down the road for six months, whyn tou aren t you grabing on to that al like a light preserver. d we are trying to avoid thevod fall today, but the specter of f the fall in the future. fut you may end up with thedefat, fall.on mc no, we are not going to end up there.et they are not going to putis y us in the position where the eef members of their party who have been threatening default, some are praying for default. pm it is a remarkable thing. they are not going to let thath. happen.om we are tmerying to