we ll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to get their asses in line . apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don t you shouldn t expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. i can t support this plan. i would love to be able to support speaker boehner, leader cantor. i have to have something that transcends election cycles. i can t support it. well, over on the democratic-controlled senate side, they are waiting to get a house bill simply so they can vote no on it. then, experts say, the real bargaining could begin on some kind of compromise that both the house and senate might a
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, kate ba
to send it to the senate where it can receive action. well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. they re going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. we ll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to get their asses in line . apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don t you shouldn t expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. i can t support this plan. i would love to be able to support speaker boehner, leader cantor. i have to have something that transc
motes. 22 republicans voted against it and all of the democrats. just before the vote, speaker boehner blamed president obama at the talks aimed at a bipartisan deal. i stuck my neck out a mile and i put revenues on the table. in order to try to come to an agreement to avert us being where we are. but a lot of people in this town can never say yes. a lot of people can never say yes. this house has acted and it is time for the administration and time for our colleagues across the aisle, put something on the table. tell us where you are. here is the thing. the conservatives resulted in a bill that has no pass of passing and no chance of a cigsignature from a democratic president. it holds our economy captive to washington politics once again. in other words, it does not solve the problem and has no chance of becoming a law. here is why he rejects it. it would force spending cults immediately. but to get increase in the debt ceiling, the house and the senate would have t
gdp we balance the budget in a year. i don t understand why they don t step up to the plate and be adults. they are putting our country s rating at risk. sean: it is donny coal. do you know how hard to it is done nicole. do you know how hard it is to get that back? sean: this has already happened. the president is trying to position now and not get the blame. i know politics is the art of the possible and you can t govern the united states by controlling one half of 1/3 of the government. however, if we go ahead with the boehner plan the president can say the economy is tanking this was the boehner plan. we go downgraded, it was the republican plan. the republicans are allowing the president to co-opt this and bring the republicans into the ownership. 1/3 of america going to be on medicaid by 2014.