jobs. now that this fake crisis is out of the way, we can focus on the real crisis, unemployment crisis that s been hanging around the neck of the country like a lead weight. president obama mentioned jobs, that word jobs, 11 separate times. this morning before the debt ceiling vote passed the senate, the president met with a labor union federation to talk about economic growth and putting americans back to work. mr. obama is pushing for an infrastructure bank, there s a training bill for iraq and affection working its way through congress. the only thing they want to talk about is jobs, j-obo, the way they are trying to get people to cover it is now that they have done this, now that they have essentially given republicans what they wanted, that means they have checked the box on deficit reduction, they have chekd the box on giving republicans what republicans said they want. now they are guessing
here in wisconsin is a tremendous amount of passion. people showing up that have never worked in politics before, never worked on a campaign before. they are phoning, going door-to-door, passing out leaflets, doing whatever they can. we re going to have thousands of volunteers to make sure we bring home a democratic majority next tuesday night. there s a lot of passion, lot of excitement here in wisconsin. jon erpenbach, democratic senator from wisconsin. we ve talked to you a lot during the ark of this, looking forward to talking to you over the next few weeks. thank you. on the ed show tonight, the congressman who started calling the debt ceiling bill what it will be called forever in history now, the man who called the debt ceiling a satan sandwich will be on the ed show. and what congress did that s going to cost us all $30 million a day for the foreseeable
this has been going on for a week and a half now. today we learned there will be a day 12 of this shutdown. and a day 13 and very likely a day 40. because congress is now out of session until september. before leaving town, house republicans rejected the democrats compromise deal on a temporary funding bill for this agency. they haven t had funding for four years. they extended funding 20 times, but for some reason the 21st time we have a problem on our hands. delta has decided they will shut down the whole faa to make congressmen move. the shutdown is keeping tens of thousands of construction
idle to not working. this has been going on for a week and a half now. today we learned there will be a day 12 of this shutdown. and a day 13 and very likely a day 40. because congress is now out of session until september. before leaving town, house republicans rejected the democr democrats compromise deal on a temporary fund iing bill for th agency. they haven t had funding for four years. they extended funding 20 times, but for some reason the 21st time we have a problem on our hands. delta has decided they will shut down the whole faa to make
as negative. in the last few months, the economy s already had to absorb an earthquake in japan, the economic head winds coming from europe, the arab spring and rile in oil prices, all of which have been very challenging for the recovery. but these are things we couldn t control. our economy didn t need washington to come along with a manufactured crisis to make things worse. that was in our hands. it s pretty likely that the uncertainty surrounding the raising of the debt ceiling for both businesses and consumers has been unsettling and just one more impediment to the full recovery that we need, and it was something we could have avoided entirely. president obama indicated today that now that this, as he described it, self-created debt ceiling fight is behind us, the white house and congress, all of washington, should pivot towards