unnecessary and a result of this austerity budget. one of the things that i am interested in, talking about giving credit to paul ryan. i want to give credit to president obama. president obama in some ways has defamed the tea party. you are a very strong hero for the tea party movement, you had one weapon, a super weapon, that was the shutdown. and president obama stood his ground, let you guys overshoot on the last shutdown. you can never fire that weapon again. and now have to take what you can get. don t you have to give president obama a little bit of credit for having paid this chess game. it was harry reid. one thing we can t forget is it was president obama and the two folks who announced the deal. i voted against the budget control act that started the sequester. washington said it was the worst thing ever, but they all took credit for it in august of 2011. if it was such a bad deal, why did they agree to it?
whatever the word is with this president? this deal does not help the economy. we need a growing economy. we need less regulations and we haven t even talked about the president s health care plan. you have to roll back on something. i have to say that continuing with this sequester, this austerity budget which it is by any other term is the worst for the economy. it kills job growth. it kills investment. it is the poorest of economics. that s why we re not fully recovered. if congress would get out of the way, i think the economy would have fully recovered. i want to thank both of you for being here. the rest of you, i want to you stay engaged with us. to go facebook or twitter to weigh in on our fire back question. are you happy with the budget deal? right now 40% of you say yes. 60% of you say no. the debate will continue online at cnn.com/crossfire as well as facebook and twitter. from the left.
they say it is great to move beyond governing by crisis. they said the sequester is doing real harm. this is a balanced package that helps deal with that and adding that they don t love everything but that s what company is about. so i think this is certainly what president obama will be saying that he supports. he is currently on his way back from africa and we are waiting for official reaction. just one question. the president has spend an awful lot of political capital last week. his entire speech to the country, his weekly address was about the un, unemployment insurance. he was talking about active job seekers. you ve got this deal on the table that has nothing about that. the white house is saying that s a good thing? reporter: they re not saying that s a good thing. let me explain what we ve heard from jay carny. the preference fortune employment insurance to be in this package. will the president sign a bill that doesn t include
does it frequently. i give him credit for that. for trying to hammer something out. it may or may not fly. all we hear is the intransgent republicans. i think he deserves credit. this is not ease tee to sell to his own conference. i don t know whether we ll get there. we re going to lose a substantial number of republicans. we re going to lose a substantial number of democrats if we what we hear about the bill is that it doesn t go after any of the special interest tax breaks that democrats would like to see help finance an end to the sequester. democrats don t like the sequester level. we feel this is an austerity budget that is doing damage to the economy. i think if we had an economy, if we had a budget that was making an investment in infrastructure and jobs and we were able to pass the president s jobs bill, our economy would have fully
recovered from their session by now. so i don t think any of this is good economics. the only question is, is this less worst economics than going through with the sequester. wasn t the sequester good for you guys? wasn t the sequester good for democrats in that you got those defense cuts you wanted and you got to paint republicans as being cold-hearted, slashing those social programs. i don t think it was good for democrats at all. and democrats don t think it was good for the country. and we re not willing to trade even a short-term political advantage for something that s damage the country. a lot of us feel that the defense cuts are too steep too fast. they don t let it go that you more methodical way. there are still millions of people struggling to get by, still struggling to find work and stay in their homes. and all of this seems very