inflexible. isn t that interesting. he was awol when it came to the debt ceiling fight last summer. awol regarding the super committee and he blames the people in the middle of the process. typical. this is what s going gone on for 2 1/2 years. it s lack of leadership. i thought with six people s names there s 12 people now whose careers are going to be affected and looked at as failures for what they did, what they didn t get accomplished for the country. that s why i was optimistic something would happen. it wasn t about president obama or speaker boehner. it was about them as much as the country. well, it is. i mean, it s a failure for all of us because the problem needed to be solved but really, it should have been solved last summer because what i was saying is we had enough money coming in to pay the interest on the debt. there s 535 members. what we needed to do was prioritize spending because we look at greece and it s obvious to all of us what has to be done. they got
looking for somebody to blame. bill: governor perry says the president and congress should work through the thanksgiving holiday and the weekend to undo the budget mess but, apparently, that s not going to happen. martha: so michele bachmann with a similar message likening our ballooning debt to the european crisis. she s saying that our failure to work out a deal is a tragedy. watch this. we look at greece, and it s obvious to all of us what has to be done. they ve got to cut back on spending, the welfare state isn t working. well, pick up a mirror and look into it. that s the united states. we re spending too much money too. we can t afford a welfare state, and so don t do it anymore. martha: so what would she have done differently as president? michele bachmann will be here tomorrow, and we ll ask her that question. bill: a lot of questions on the line there. in the meantime, the supercommittee s failure means billions of dollars in if automatic spending cuts are supposed to kick