there. one kept a tally of the total national debt. the other showed how much it went up while the convention was in session. more than 8 1/2 billion dollars with a b. no sign of any debt clock here at the dnc. the democrats say the gop s proposed budget could ultimately kill millions of jobs. gerri willis is live this evening. it seems the democrats still tonight want to talk attention to the debt, even though congress people on both sides of the aisle had plenty to do with it. listen, $5 trillion of that came on obama s watch. that s one reason they re not looking at the numbers today. as soon as it ticked over to $16 trillion, you better believe that the romney campaign came out swinging, saying that obama left americans worse off than when he took office. now we also discussed it over the weekend, obama advisor david axelrod had this to say. the president s plan would do what the simpson bowles plan would do, cut the deficit by 4 trillion dollars, reduce it to
make that choice. on the question of the choice issue, i have supported the roe v wade. i am pro choice. my opponent is multiple choice. when mr. romney, are you going to tell the people of massachusetts which health care program you favor? i have a plan, i have a position paper on health care. i m happy to show it to you, any time you would like. mr. romney, it isn t a question of showing me your paper. it s a question of showing all of the people in here that are watching this program the paper. they can they ought to have an opportunity to know. i think it s a wonderful idea to take it through piece by piece and that s what you have to do with legislation. that s exactly what you have to do. now he looks like he s for minimum wage. now he s for education reform. if we give him two more weeks, he may even vote for me. mitt romney called me to
of a simpson-bowles plan comes out that deals with revenues, that deals with entitlements, that deals with spending cuts. we need to make this bipartisan. otherwise it will not work. neil: you are right on that what i notice about this, you are right there is enough blame do go around, but this president picked a debt commission and this president would left the co-chairman at the altar association to speak, and let him die on the vine. you know the power of the office and when you have both simpson and bowles saying they could have used him and they were disappointed in him, what? guest: if the president had gone and said, i m with you guys, you need to have some kind of republicans. neil: but he is on record as saying, i m for, even the stuff that hurts my party and he could call the republican s bluff. guest: he did, you remember
the president took agelast as president of the conference of mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didn t say is he was a member of that commission and didn t vote for it. chris: i understand. it was the president s commission and he did nothing with it. what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting chris: but in a way that republicans will never buy. the other plan had bipartisan support. he didn t have mr. ryan s support. and you are right, it it wasn t exactly reflective of mr. it did have republicans and it had democrats as well. not enough of them. it should have had a unanimous support for it as a frame work, not for everything in it. and what the president has done, he has adopted $4 trillion in deficit cuts over the next ten years. what he didn t do is he did
mayors we passed the simpson bowles plan as a template for moving forward and the president has done the same. you talked about the republican convention. mr. ryan raised that as well. what he didn t say is he was a member of that commission and didn t vote for it. chris: i understand. it was the president s commission and he did nothing with it. what the president has done he is also cutting $4 trillion out of this deficit. now, he is not cutting chris: but in a way that republicans will never buy. the other plan had bipartisan support. he didn t have mr. ryan s support. and you are right, it it wasn t exactly reflective of mr. it did have republicans and it had democrats as well. not enough of them. it should have had a unanimous support for it as a frame work, not for everything in it. and what the president has done, he has adopted $4 trillion in deficit cuts over the next ten years. what he didn t do is he didn t want to cut defense as much and he actually went beyond t