up a bit, even if it s a clumsy way of doing it with the sequester. look, this is not your father s faa. this is faa that has to meet certain contract obligations with our controllers. we know that air travel is back at a par prior to 9/11. we know a lot of people are flying. we re not making this up, david. we re not making this up in order to put pain on the american people. we are required to cut a billion dollars, and we re going to do that unless congress gets together and works together and compromises on this issue. all right. so you talked about being an illinois guy. you talked about lincoln this week as you issued a challenge to republican. here is what you said? i suggest that my former colleagues on the republican side go see the movie lincoln. because in the movie lincoln it shows how hard it was back then to get things done.
and red flag has gone up with that getting a lot of red flags as people try to lay groundwork so they can claim voter fraud. bill: they they re watching the vote. but, the other thing is the demonstrations, the big big protests that we saw months ago those began to wane in the past month. president obama hasn t made a major effort. he did make a tweet in favor of barrett. mitt romney hasn t been out to wisconsin. neither side go and get actually involved. romney doesn t need to go there because walker seemed to be doing strongly in the polls through the much of this process. the president didn t want to go there frankly because he could add to a distraction undermine barrett. he doesn t want to be tied in with a loss. come on o. i find it hard to believe. be a real drag. it hasn t happened yet. i just find it hard to believe that barack obama, is he very busy. he has got jon bon jovi, we
the side of the middle class, and they re on the side of the rich. and that s it. but there are lots of moderate democrats, there may be four or five democratic senators right now who say that they t won t ve with the president on taking away the tax cuts for the wealthy. so he s got a real problem legislatively about where he s going to get his votes. and i think, also, since he has a lot of these swing democrats, they re just they re not falling in line with that right now. they don t want to raise taxes on anyone in an election year, criod. and congress is bak. the senate was back in session today, so you might be thinking at home, they re going to al with this this week, they re going to finally do something, whether i like it or not before the election, don t count on it. this will probably at least onvr the senate side go over to the lame duck congress. let s focus on the republican divide and bring john and ed into the conversation. mitch mcconnell, the senate republican lea