condemnation of his leadership skills? especially when he is seen playing golf two days before the shutdown, refusing to even talk about it. one can argue that s not leadership. it is ab abdocation? those who think the country is going in a great direction, who are those people? there is no question from the beginning when these negotiations began, not just as recent round of negotiations x but when they had previous problems a year ago, two years ago, three years ago, the president s leadership has been a bimal. bob woodward detailed it in his book over the 2011 fight ever on the debt ceiling. this is not a president who has shown great leadership. however in this current crisis right now with the shutdown, the republicans went into this battle without a strategy. they called for something that was impossible to imagine them getting which was the funding of obamacare. it was futile. it was futile.
that it is not prepared for the pending cut it needs to make if congress doesn t reach deficit reduction agreement by the end of the year. while omd has not engaged agencies in planning, our staff is conducting the analysis that is necessary to move forward. should that be required. critics say the lack of preparation is unacceptable. president of the commanderer in chief of the country. other day his spokesman said he was leaving this to congress. this is abdocation of leadership. the white house says the cuts themselves were designed to be unacceptable. to force congress to reach a compromise. pentagon officials say the $500 billion in cuts would demand complete change in defense strategy. and hollow the force. one thing we can t do as government is sacrifice national security by triggering this rather absurd mechanism that was instituted to avoid absurdity. in addition, the defense
2012 budget lost zero to 97 in the senate. last week, the current budget lost 0-414 in the house. that is a stunning repudiation of his leadership. it shows the abdocation of leadership when we face the type of financial crisis. he is refusing to put forward a series enough budget not even one member of his party would vote for it. amazing. greta: let me just say, i m essentially, i don t want to get in the weeds with you and i didn t want to do it with representative waserman schultz. i am trying to figure when we can move the process forward. not saying who is winning or not winning, good, bad, who has the better or the rotten budget. we have to get a budget out of the senate to move it forward. i m curious, has senator reid given indication or chairman of the budget committee given indication there will be a budget so we can engage it with the house to try to resolve it? no. harry reid said there is no
2012 budget lost zero to 97 in the senate. last week, the current budget lost 0-414 in the house. that is a stunning repudiation of his leadership. it shows the abdocation of leadership when we face the type of financial crisis. he is refusing to put forward a series enough budget not even one member of his party would vote for it. amazing. greta: let me just say, i m essentially, i don t want to get in the weeds with you and i didn t want to do it with representative waserman schultz. i am trying to figure when we can move the process forward. not saying who is winning or not winning, good, bad, who has the better or the rotten budget. we have to get a budget out of the senate to move it forward. i m curious, has senator reid given indication or chairman of the budget committee given indication there will be a budget so we can engage it with the house to try to resolve it? no. harry reid said there is no
the house budget. but it actually got some votes in favor of it. the last year president obama 2012 budget lost zero to 97 in the senate. last week, the current budget lost 0-414 in the house. that is a stunning repudiation of his leadership. it shows the abdocation of leadership when we face the type of financial crisis. he is refusing to put forward a series enough budget not even one member of his party would vote for it. amazing. greta: let me just say, i m essentially, i don t want to get in the weeds with you and i didn t want to do it with representative waserman schultz. i am trying to figure when we can move the process forward. not saying who is winning or not winning, good, bad, who has the better or the rotten budget. we have to get a budget out of the senate to move it forward. i m curious, has senator reid given indication or chairman of the budget committee given indication there will be a budget so we can engage it with the house to try to resolve it?