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put together by advocating that president obama might not be born in this country. i see no evidence that s the case. all right. i don t get it, i don t understand why we keep talking about it. i, for one, think it is heaswo wwr, and we should stop doel srtrit now. senator chuck schumer accused the tea party of hoping for a government shut down. republicans spent all day attacking him, but did they spend any time finding a compromise to stop a shut down? senator schumer will tell us. we re not take anything off the table at this point. i am not going to put any options on the table or take any options off the table. the president pushes his strategy in libya. the republican speaker can t push his plan to cut spending. budget talks have stalled. our goal is to cut spending. $30 billion. they would have taken that in a heartbeat.
even if republican leaders want to compromise, the tea party won t let them. the tea party has moved the negotiations to the right. is your party showing leadership on this front? not yet. okay. not yet. right now, we are ten days away from a government shut down, and it will delay your taxes. if they shut down the government, will they shut down the war in libya? no. the president depends his decision to take action in libya and wins over some adversaries. i believe the president s decision to intervene in libya deserves strong bipartisan support. we had a unique circumstance to save a lot of lives. how does it end. you ve got a wounded snake there, and you ve got to kill it. i consulted with a bipartisan group, including the speaker of the house, including the republican leader. i think his actions were in keeping both with the constitutional powers of the president. and just when sarah palin thinks she finally has this whole foreign policy thing down,
president has received in washington given that on march 1st, you introduced a resin the senate which passed unanimously, unanimously condemning gadhafi s abuse of human rights in libya and calling for a un enforced no-fly zone. that was voted for unanimously by the senate. i think the president has done two things i think are well received by the american people. first, the mission is limited. it is to the air. it is to first humanitarian purposes as the resolution called for to prevent the massacre of hundreds of thousands of innocent libyans in benghazi. and second, to of course the second part of the mission which i think americans support is from the air to disrupt gadhafi s control and command and supply lines. but the second part of this i v and the president in a relatively short period of time has brought others in to take a
numbers. if you look inside the numbers they are even worse. for example among independent dents who are the critical element in any election, the president s job approval is 39% and his reelect is 37%. if you look at the big issues the president s approval on the issues is clearly driving these numbers downward. on the deficit he only has a 30% approval on the economy a 34% approval, on energy a 35% approval. on foreign affairs generally 41. on afghanistan 42. these are not good numbers. they like him, they wish him well but they are giving him very poor marks today on his conduct and his handling of the big issues? and the president seems to be taking a pounding from just about all quarters, really, on this involvement in libya, and i wonder if that is reflected in some of these poll numbers? reporter: i think it is to some extent, but remember most of the time a president a president s worst enemy is