canada. and aluminum and energy. that s the important part. by the way, electricity. if you re in the northeast america you re on the same grid and water. this is a bad fight. picking a fight with south korea on trade is a bad fight. we need south korea. there is a correlation between those you trade with and those you don t fight with. the president doesn t seem to have any regard for that. there s also this question ef congressional republicans are making nos if they re going to stand up to him on this. they could. this is something that congress has statutory authority. which they gave to the president and could take back. but they could take it back. it kind of shows how completely, i m trying to think of a better word than gelded they ve become in dealing with him that even on issues where they have strong disdegrees they and he kind of has no political capital on his side, they still won t stand up to him. mark meadows the other day in the freedom caucus sort of a
as a congratulations, you ve reinvented. as a canadian, i ve never heard such tough talk from canadians about america in my life. pierre trudeau. fascinating how often we re having rows with canada. who does that. we should say the largest exporter of steel to the u.s. is canada. and aluminum and energy. that s the important part. by the way, electricity. if you re in the northeast america you re on the same grid and water. this is a bad fight. picking a fight with south korea on trade is a bad fight. we need south korea. there is a correlation between those you trade with and those you don t fight with. the president doesn t seem to have any regard for that. there s also this question ef congressional republicans are making nos if they re going to stand up to him on this.
spending opportunity. everybody laughed and said, god, they are fiscally reckless. well, barack obama said in february of 2009, one month after getting into office, social security was going to go bankrupt. that medicare was a major crisis waiting to happen and we couldn t, quote, kick the can down the road. well, he s kicked the can down the road for four years. he had a presidential debt commission. they got thrown under the bus. if you want to talk about mitt romney s recklessness and irresponsibility that s fine, but [ inaudible ] shouldn t the president of the united states have done something to save social security, save medicare? shouldn t he have embraced simpson-bowles? my sense first of all, i think that last year when the debt limit was getting so much attention, he tried to make something work. obviously that fell apart with the speaker. also s no question ef we ve got a lot of work to do in that area and we have to make sure we re