blameless. but certainly over the past two years it s the policies of barack obama. now, this is not just political partisanship, this is not just, look, the economy s in the tank and, therefore, it s all barack obama s fault. we re not saying that. but it s the policies that barack obama has put in place, megyn, that has launched us into this direction. no one not no one, but 65%, 70% of americans didn t want obamacare. they didn t want a $2.5 trillion down payment for government-run health care. they didn t want a stimulus bill that cost a trillion dollars. now, we ve lost two and a half million jobs since that program. it s the policies of barack obama, it s his inaction, it s his obsession with campaigning instead of getting things done, and it s the democrats not delivering a budget, playing this game of rope a dope which means every time the republicans try to address these issues they try to vilify every single republican. they re launching an ad today,
press conferences and speeches don t create policies that the congress can actually vote on. now he s said i m going to come up with some ideas, i m going to present them. he said that at a speech two months ago, and nothing came out of the white house. we still haven t seen any specific bees from this president, so how it plays out, people are going to be asking themselves a question, megyn, and that is are we better off today than we were three or four years ago? and the answer to that is, heck, no, we re not. and has this president fulfilled his promises to the american people when it comes to the debt, the deficit, jobs, the economy? the answer to all of those questions are, no. and, you know, for the sake of our economy, for the sake of our country we need to make barack obama a one-term president and start getting this, our country back in shape again. megyn: reince priebus, thanks so much for coming on. we appreciate it, sir. with thank you, megyn. megyn: this downgrade is hav
bipartisan fiscal commission that i set up put forth good proposals. republicans and democrats in the senate s gang of six came up with some good proposals. john boehner and i came up with some good proposals when we came close to agreeing on a grand bargain. so it s not a lack of plans or policies that is the problem here. it s a lack of political will in washington. it s the insistence on drawing lines in the sand. a refusal to put what s best for the country ahead of self-interest or party or ideology. that s what we need to change. i realize that after what we just went through there s some skepticism that republicans and democrats on the so-called supercommittee, this joint committee that s been set up, will be able to reach a compromise. but my hope is that friday s news will give us a renewed sense of urgency. i intend to present my own
several months for politicizing the treasury department and the role that it has played in this entire process of raising the national debt ceiling. this treasury secretary s indulged in extraordinary hyperbole by any standard, but certainly by a treasury secretary. megyn: when you think geithner, do you think extraordinary hyperbole? reporter: well, i do. and the other part of it is that this treasury secretary right now, megyn, has less creditability than s&p. that s how bad it is. megyn: how do you pin it all on him? reporter: i didn t. megyn: i m just saying the administration has policies reporter: i d like you to identify those policies. megyn: they like spending. they believe that was the way out of the crisis that we suffered a couple of years ago and, arguably, are still in. how is it on geithner s shoulders, or is it on the shoulders of the reporter: the treasury secretary and the president, as i said, the president and this treasury secretary, but this man, the