senator reid said no, was to say okay, what about a one-year delay? well, i think the original demand was viewed by the american public as unreasonable, and as a result kind of armed harry reid and president obama to dig in their heels and to continue to point to republicans as being utterly unreasonable no matter what we proposed later on. reporter: but george will says democrats didn t seem particularly reasonable either. the president followed his sequester folly, the sky is falling, everything s coming to an end, with oh my goodness, government shutdown, we have to first build a fence around an open air world war ii memorial so we can say we ve closed it. and he looked like a foolish and vindictive man. reporter: soon another deadline approached. the debt ceiling. again. that turned out to be one showdown too many for congressional republicans who are being blamed most by an angry public for shutting down the government. you had leadership in both
reporter: true. but they disagreed on how to avoid them. republicans want entitlement reform. the president asks for higher taxes and new spending programs. i m announcing the launch of three more of these manufacturing hubs. use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an energy security front. put people to work as soon as possible on our most urgent repairs. make high-quality free school available to every single child in america. redesign america s high schools so they better equip graduates. our taxes are job producers. more spending because we continue to destroy jobs. last winter our cameras followed you through the showdown, the sequester showdown. and one telling moment was after the state of the union. was that speech a turning point that some republicans said he s not hearing us, this thing s going to kick in? the president s not hearing the american people. they want spending cuts. and they see that as the only mechanism where spending cuts are actually taking pla
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