government many times crisis is a horrible thing to have and might be a horrible thing to waste. the deadline puts a wall there where you have to get over that wall. the wall is going to knock you down. so, that is it is crisis point or not? i know convenience has a deadline. is this or not? in a state when i got to west virginia, our credit ratings were dismal for many, many years. i set a goal to raise the credit ratings. six years in a row in west virginia we have surpluses. we committed to stay within our means. the last three years our credit rating has been increased. i know it can be done. i m worried about the credit rating of this nation. i know what a long haul it is to get it back. it s not pretty for anybody. we are not going to have the luxury of making decisions and doing things we don t want to
socialist. he is a loser. this is america. oh. nobody loves a loser. peggy. did you write that? where were you? what was the scenario when you wrote this? let me tell you what i am thinking. we are in a great crisis, this debt ceiling thing. it s taking place within an ongoing long term economic crisis of which we are in the third year. it seems to me joe manchin said this morning, the president has not taken sufficient leadership, really gotten himself into this thing, having everybody constantly in there. in my view, he s played games with this crisis. first avoiding it then being strategically avoid ant and
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in fact, the most powerful democrats on the hill. i will stop right there. the complaints were all the same. the president has vanished. he s left us here alone, again, like he did with health care. where is he? they didn t call him a loser, but they sure as hell didn t call him a leader. sorry, mika, i didn t mean to pull that veil down on your whole act. she s working hard to comfort obama. he keeps his voice cool and calm. that s a nice thing. it s not enough. it s not going to get you through a crisis, which is what this is. peggy, as a practical matter, what should he be doing? he s working behind the scenes, staying up all night. what should he do differently? he should not have spent the past two months saying i ll try this and that. he should have decided two months ago i m going to get them
this is a time to put our country first. this is the greatest country on earth. we will do what it takes to continue for the next generation. i recommend the president talk to the front row, the back row, everybody. get us all engaged. for the sake of the country, let s get it together. mike, that s the thing. the biggest problem is this president doesn t know the players. he does not have a comfortable relationship with members of the senate who he worked with for a couple months or certainly members of the house. yesterday, it was very much the same thing as now. get people in the room and talk about the country. get it done for the country. senator, i would like to ask you, if it comes to the senate, whatever form comes to the senate and it involves a six month extension, only a six month extension, would you vote for that and go through this