It is, is a first step toward further collaboration, because our countrys in trouble. You know, we have a fiscal crisis looming. We still have an economy thats too weak, and we need to Work Together to solve these problems. So i like to view it as a very small step, a baby step in the right direction. It did reduce the deficit a little bit. It did it without raising taxes. It kept us from going into a Government Shutdown in january, but also in september of next year. And finally, it put the United States congress back on track to do appropriations bills. Let me get to some of the things you want to do in just a minute, but, first of all, when you get back, staring you right in the face within a month or so is the debt ceiling. Yep. Democrats say clean debt ceiling, we dont want to rattle Financial Markets. You have said that this is a chance to get more serious. Absolutely. What do you want to put on the debt ceiling . Whats the condition for rob portman supporting the debt ceiling .
Both ways, al, and i hope what it is, is a first step toward further collaboration, because our countrys in trouble. You know, we have a fiscal crisis looming. We still have an economy thats too weak, and we need to Work Together to solve these problems. So i like to view it as a very small step, a baby step in the right direction. It did reduce the deficit a little bit. It did it without raising taxes. It kept us from going into a Government Shutdown in january, but also in september of next year. And finally, it put the United States congress back on track to do appropriations bills. Let me get to some of the things you want to do in just a minute, but, first of all, when you get back, staring you right in the face within a month or so is the debt ceiling. Yep. Democrats say clean debt ceiling, we dont want to rattle Financial Markets. You have said that this is a chance to get more serious. Absolutely. What do you want to put on the debt ceiling . Whats the condition for rob portman
You know, its been analyzed both ways, al, and i hope what it is, is a first step toward further collaboration, because our countrys in trouble. You know, we have a fiscal crisis looming. We still have an economy thats too weak, and we need to Work Together to solve these problems. So i like to view it as a very small step, a baby step in the right direction. It did reduce the deficit a little bit. T did it without raising taxes. It kept us from going into a Government Shutdown in january, but also in september of next year. And finally, it put the United States congress back on track to do appropriations bills. Let me get to some of the things you want to do in just a minute, but, first of all, when you get back, staring you right in the face within a month or so is the debt ceiling. Yep. Democrats say clean debt ceiling, we dont want to rattle Financial Markets. You have said that this is a chance to get more serious. Absolutely. What do you want to put on the debt ceiling . Whats th
Collaboration . You know, its been analyzed both ways, al, and i hope what it is, is a first step toward further collaboration, because our countrys in trouble. You know, we have a fiscal crisis looming. We still have an economy thats too weak, and we need to Work Together to solve these problems. So i like to view it as a very small step, a baby step in the right direction. It did reduce the deficit a little bit. It did it without raising taxes. It kept us from going into a Government Shutdown in january, but also in september of next year. And finally, it put the United States congress back on track to do appropriations bills. Let me get to some of the things you want to do in just a minute, but, first of all, when you get back, staring you right in the face within a month or so is the debt ceiling. Yep. Democrats say clean debt ceiling, we dont want to rattle Financial Markets. You have said that this is a chance to get more serious. Absolutely. What do you want to put on the debt c
Because they are earned in the view of these people, rightly or wrongly. To a significant degree, wrongly. And significantly antielitist, that theres a wisdom in the collective that the elites often are combating. He wrote, and i thought this was quite a remarkable statement, the tea party is jacksonian american aroused, angry, and above all fearful backed by the new american demography that threatens its interests and scorns its values. They view obama as a sort of, having a conscious strategy of Building Political support by increasing americas dependence on government, and they i in polls of the tea party conducted by Pew Research Center and others suggest that these people consider obama as pushing america towards socialism. Well, thats not entirely wrong in the sense that obama seems to be ad slow candidate of advocate of europeanstyle social democracy. So this is a powerful strain in american politics. It has significant antecedents in our political tradition. It may not be a big