535 people making decision and now giving it to 12. that super committee was far right and far left and that s what we have. couple of tea partiers on the far right . one senator who said it is a tea party downgrade. how will they come up with savings. the problem with newt. he is smart and said the smartest things that were sad out of his mouth. he s like the guy who hangs over the edge of your cubicle. no, that is the wrong way to go. why didn t you lin to me. yeah, the guy in the balcony or the muppet, you don t want to hear from him even though he is right. looked like he was leaning on a parking meter the entire time. he was perterbed and on your fence or yard while you are mowing the lawn.
could affect all of us, including our own mail delivery. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. jtsdzer. it all begins in iowa. right now many of the republican presidential candidates are in that state, a state that holds the lead-off contest in 2012. they re working the crowds at the state fair before tomorrow s pivotal iowa straw poll. and they re taking direct aim at president obama s handling of the debt crisis and the u.s. economy. listen to some of the republican hopefuls, including sarah palin, who insists she still hasn t decided whether to run. i think the question should be asked, is the president responsible for the down grade? i would say yes. from the top, that leadership starts from the top. look what happened two weeks ago. when barack obama s back was against the wall. what did he do to try to scare americans to call their members of congress? he threatened social security recipients that their money wouldn t be there. he threatened medicare
house of representatives countered even the will of many republicans in the united states senate. the fact of the matter is, this is essentially a tea party downgrade. the tea party brought us to the brink of a default. it is something that should never have happened. that clearly is on the backs of those who were willing to see the country default many those strident voices in the tea party. i agree with david. i think a tea party problem. they are totally unreasonable. not founded in reality. i think they ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it. sean: of course the leaders on the left would never dream of taking responsible for their role. even their excuses are getting stale. joining me rand paul. the president blames everybody, everything. if the tea party budget was adopted senator, correct me where i m wrong, their watered down version, cut, cap and
story, we grew up with it, the president is like a teenage boy who had a big party and trashed his house while his parents were gone, and then he gets really upset when his parents come back home and make him clean up the mess. these house republicans, bill, these troublesome house republicans were sent to washington to help this president clean up his mess and all they want to do is fingerpoint and assign blame. i think the american people see right through it. bill: well, what did you think of the label, tea party downgrade, that emerged two days ago? it s offensive, it s outrageous, but it s almost comical, because their talking points are so obvious. it s almost it s almost too political. but again, this goes to the fact that you ve got an administration that i believe is in over their heads, and they truly don t know what they re doing, and all they re left with is to
of people in the house of representatives countered even the will of many republicans in the united states senate. the fact of the matter is, this is essentially a tea party downgrade. the tea party brought us to the brink of a default. it is something that should never have happened. that clearly is on the backs of those who were willing to see the country default many those strident voices in the tea party. i agree with david. i think a tea party problem. they are totally unreasonable. not founded in reality. i think they ve been smoking some of that tea, not just drinking it. sean: of course the leaders on the left would never dream of taking responsible for their role. even their excuses are getting stale. joining me rand paul. the president blames everybody, everything. if the tea party budget was adopted senator, correct me where i m wrong, their watered down version, cut, cap and