people in washington might do in terms of shutting the government down. getting past this will matter. the confidence that fortunately wall street and i ve had my differences with them, but also main street will have in janet yellen, couple that with finally getting through this government shutdown and debt ceiling disaster that could be looming, i think will give the economy more confidence and we ll do better. you mentioned that the debt ceiling standoff and senator, one of the reasons that senators like yourself are typically considered more important than members of the house is not only that you represent a full state, but it s also the upper chamber that s being seen as a more serious and responsibility legs irveg body in many ways. how do you feel watching this many of your republican colleagues seeming to go the way of the house and go on record with a threat on the debt ceiling that within relatively recent history they all said was not the way to do business responsibly.
republicans in the house. it s not an easy position to take especially with the public. but he came out pretty strongly against the president and the administration s handling of the situation so far or lack there of. here s what he said yesterday on face the nation . do you think the president hurt his case by saying he wanteded to go to congress? i think the way it happened was misty fiing to me. the president announces it on a saturday. doesn t call congress back. if you were going to do that, call them back for a serious national security debate. i think that had to happen and review the evidence we had so you could have a quick order of events. instead he announced it and then left. he left the country for a week. congressman also said that the white house has done an awful job explaining themselves. looking back the past week, do you feel the president could have handled any of the situations differently? at this point is it too little too late?
administration has been has handled libya right? i m mystified by the way the administration has handled this one. it s misty fiing how when you have a killer like gadhafi, responsible for the deaths of hundreds and thousands africans, for 270 people on board pan-am 103 and lord knows how many of his own people, that we can t come to a position it s long past time for him to go. and that slowness we ll pay a price for for a long time. al jazeera, which has become with some justify fiction a hero of these revolutionary moments is taking to showing pictures of the white house or the president, why is the u.s. being so silent? and shows pictures of the people who have been killed in the protests. it s a devastating image. you were in high levels of