republican party are calling it, that the pen might be mightier than congress. well, here s the thing. presidents have the ability, george w. bush, right after 9/11, sadly, not thereafter, but president obama gave a speech in 2004 where he said this is not a red america or a blue america. it s a united states of america. after he was re-elected, harris, he said, i won. read the election results. i m going forward my way. one man can make a difference, but he has to do something more than play politics, and what i think we re saying is both sides put political gain ahead of the greater good. what i was saying specifically about the pen is the president is saying if congress doesn t agree with me that s what i was alluding to. we have a economy that started under bush, the hell with the law, the hell with the constitution. if you have the power, we saw this in the senate after 200
secretary of hhs, but also others that say that this health care law is a problem. we re tired of seeing theater. we were tired of seeing washington, d.c. play politics. so chris and i both agree we need to get to the bottom of the problem but not just the website, the law as a whole. the problem out there is there are millions of americans who do not have health care insurance, so the affordable health care act, chris and angela, was to be something that would be not only the signature legacy of president barack obama but would help the american people. many people were trying to sign up and they can t get through. secretary sebelius is getting a lot of heat. she says it s tough to take these shots but she will take them until she gets the problem fixed. are you confident she can get this done? because someone should have done something by now. well, you know, here s the problem from my perspective. philosophical philosophically, as i democrat, i believe the government can do good
the president has handled the situation this week. if it s such a dire situation as he s trying to tell democrats and republicans who are against this, then why did you go play politics by going to congress? why did you wait two years to act? why did you wait for 110,000 people to be killed in syria? he s got a really bad set of principles here to go try to sell it to the american people tuesday night, and i think most people are saying we re not buying into how bad it is because look how long you ve waited to do this. we just got a little bit of time left. i want to ask a question to elyse and the colonel here because you have both been in a lot of bad places, iraq, afghanistan, all over the middle east. i have, too. when you confront the suffering you see in some of these places at the hands of dictators, you see how people suffer, you re often left with the feeling couldn t we do something to help. could other countries step in and do something to stop this. is this one of those t
and the proof is look at how bad the president has handled the situation this week. if it s such a dire situation as he s trying to tell democrats and republicans who are against this, then why did you go play politics by going to congress? why did you wait two years to act? why did you wait for 110,000 people to be killed in syria? he s got a really bad set of principles here to go try to sell it to the american people tuesday night, and i think most people are saying we re not buying into how bad it is because look how long you ve waited to do this. we just got a little bit of time left. i want to ask a question to elyse and the colonel here because you have both been in a lot of bad places, iraq, afghanistan, all over the middle east. i have, too. when you confront the suffering you see in some of these places at the hands of dictators, you see how people suffer, you re often left with the feeling couldn t we do something to help. could other countries step in and do something to
and the lack of leadership when we were attacked in benghazi has emboldened people like assad to do this. and the proof is look at how bad the president has handled the situation this week. if it s such a dire situation as he s trying to tell democrats and republicans who are against this, then why did you go play politics by going to congress? why did you wait two years to act? why did you wait for 110,000 people to be killed in syria? he s got a really bad set of principles here to go try to sell it to the american people tuesday night, and i think most people are saying we re not buying into how bad it is because look how long you ve waited to do this. we just got a little bit of time left. i want to ask a question to elyse and the colonel here because you have both been in a lot of bad places, iraq, afghanistan, all over the middle east. i have, too. when you confront the suffering you see in some of these places at the hands of dictators, you see how people suffer, you re often