i agree because america deserves better. america does not deserve a debt crisis. this is the most predictable crisis we have ever had. in 2008, when we had the economic crisis that, caught us by surprise. if your president, your congressman and your senator knew about a bam time, when it was coming, how it stop it and had time to stop it and doesn t do so because it wasn t good politics what would you think of that person? we know a debt crisis is coming, just like europe. we know when it s happening, why it s happening and what to do to prevent it from happening. have you to pass a budget. and we don t have a willing partner in the white house or the senate. so yes, we are frustrating. but we need new leadership and we are going to the country with a referendum on fixing this problem and letting at least the country decide in november, what do you want? do you want a country that prevent this is debt crisis and gets back to prosperity? or do you want to go down this
the course of this week e. says the democrats have been punting on what he considers to be the most important issue of our lifetime. what if though knew what they needed to do to stop from it happening and they had the time to stop it but they chose to do nothing about it, because it wasn t good politics. what would you think of that person? it would be immoral. this coming debt crisis is the most predictable crisis we ve ever had in this country. martha: very interesting, that from paul ryan. illinois republican congressman peter rothcom is the chief deputy whip and he joins me now. congressman, welcome. good to have you here today. thanks, martha. martha: in one article this morning they are calling paul ryan s budget a christmas gift to democrats saying it will get them into a media blitz and a frenzy shooting back at paul ryan and a cushion him of the kinand accusing him of the stuff they accused him of last
took i mean, nothing really changed in the last couple years for the administration to come to this decision. and the fact that they kind of got here now is i think a little bit curious. i mean, they really could have done this a year ago and been exactly in the right place. what s your question? i guess what i m curious about is, what what will pressure the administration move we talked about the political pressure that this was good politics. i don t see, you know right. why it wasn t good politics a year ago. so why is it good politics now compared it a year ago, and what is the definition of not really legal? and does it imply and is that and should i use marijuana in california as a precedent for that? well, military tribunals are constitutional and legal. they are. as to why it took this long, i think the administration wanted to send a different message about justice. they viewed guantanamo and the tribunals as so horribly discredited, and such a tarn
economic issue but national security. a moral issue. the first thing i have had a bad experience with in this congress is tarp. when that wry issues hit it caught us by surprise. let me ask you this, what if your president and congressman knew this was coming, knew how to prevent it, knew when it was coming and what to do to stop it but chose not to do anything to prevent that in happening because it wasn t good politics. what would you think about that? greta: did that happen? no, but it is happening now. we have seen a recession worse than tarp and we are not doing anything about it. a president who knows what it takes to fix it but has chosen not to do that. that is wrong and that s why republicans are not going to fail to add leadership. we will step in and provide leadership where the president has left off and we will propose a budget that does deal with the the drivers of our debt and reform the entitlement programs and reforms government
security. a moral issue. the first thing i have had a bad experience with in this congress is tarp. when that wry issues hit it caught us by surprise. let me ask you this, what if your president and congressman knew this was coming, knew how to prevent it, knew when it was coming and what to do to stop it but chose not to do anything to prevent that in happening because it wasn t good politics. what would you think about that? greta: did that happen? no, but it is happening now. we have seen a recession worse than tarp and we are not doing anything about it. a president who knows what it takes to fix it but has chosen not to do that. that is wrong and that s why republicans are not going to fail to add leadership. we will step in and provide leadership where the president has left off and we will propose a budget that does deal with the the drivers of our debt and reform the entitlement programs and reforms government to stop the debt crisis from