he could and then we did business on the side. and you are laughing but that s really rereached an accommodation. but at the time, because they shut the government down twice, and because they wished to hold on to their jobs, the republicans, then wanted to maintain their majority, they believed they had to show up for work and get something done. this reapportionment has created a climate particularly in the house of representatives but also in some of the states where they are one-party states. where they believe that they don t have to get anything done. they just believe that they have to demonize the opposition and say whatever they are going to say. i know you have a whole hour with the former president. did he impress you? he is still strong now. the former president. healthy.
i was on a flight. i hate to say i. i fly on hawaiian airlines, i heard that announcement in the last month. please don t open any peanut products. rereached out to united. they did give us a response, not to this particular case. they redirected us to their actual standard warning on their website. here s what it is, i will read it out straight. it is not possible to insure commerce will not bring food stums on board that contain nuts. we cannot guarantee free pea nit flights or remove any products based on any individual requests. we encourage passengers to review health concerns with tear physician prior to flying. here s another question, if you know are you lethally allergic to something, should you not be carrying an epi pen? you absolutely should, i think she has an uphill battle with this lawsuit. you do? frankly. warning i think protects united. they re saying, hey, we called
president obama s 2008 campaign. the issue of energy is apparently a sensitive one for the president. the washington examiner reports clean coal advocates for banned from entering two campaign events this week. tuesday, supporters had their clean coal t-shirts, hats and signs confiscated at a rally in virginia, featuring vice president bite bite. thepresident vice president biden. the american coalition for clean coal electricity says this has been happening for months. rereached out to the obama campaign and have yet to hear back. finally, politico roger simon wrote a satire of vice presidential nominee paul ryan this week using this quote. he has been marching around his campaign bus saying things like , if stench calls, take a message . he was referencing this quote in the new york times if ryan wants to run for national office again, he will probably have to wash the stench of romney off of him.
ultimately fell apart. even some of the enron stuff has been falling apart. it s a lot more difficult to track down not that this conversation could have been a lot better. but we hope someone from goldman sachs would participate in the conversation. they didn t. rereached out to them and they gave us the following statement with respect to senator levin s remarks about misleading testimony with regard to the big short, the testimony we gave was truthful and accurate and this is confident we did not have a massive net short positions because our positions were largely offset by our long positions. i will just explain to our viewers that long positions mean you re buying something with the understanding or hope that it will increase in value. when you are short on something, you are betting that it is going to lose value. and that s what this hinges on.
not broad deficit or deficit targets that punt the questions to the future. and with the exception of tax hikes, which in my opinion will destroy american jobs, everything is on the table. will, what serious conversation about debt reduction begins by absolutely taking the possibility or discussion of tax hikes off the table? not very many serious discussions. i don t know. i remember when i was little, my dad took me to a car dealership and said, this is how you buy a car. i remember they wrote the numbers down on a piece of paper and slid them across the table. my dad s offer was excessively low. that s the only comparison i can make. i look to guys more like tom coburn. you can t question coburn s ideological position. i hope you re right. that s what people around me at the speech were saying. it s an hoping salvo. jean, if we wanted to keep our debt at the level that it s at right now, not reducing it just simply keeping it from growing through spending cut, we d h