death benefits to the families of the fallen soldiers. this has taken pressure off of the military family group that has offered to pay the benefits including the $100,000 payment. the press expect the press secretary said it reads in part, with congress no longer providing the dod from the families directly he is pleased with the dod will be able to fulfill its responsibilities. the administration says it could have been avoided if congress didn t shutdown the government. the real suffering as well as the inconvenience could have been avoided and could have been avoided in the future if the house would simply reopen the government. during the gop weekly address, the chairman of the house armed services committee says the house has been passing legislation to restore funding to not only military families, but programs nationwide and putting an end to the stalemate that has captivated the country. and it is about ensuring that our troops in harm s way
think he is worried. he sees the comparison and he doesn t see himself as in bad shape as his opponents in congress. that s why he is not willing to negotiate at all. it has hurt him to some degree. in fact his health care bill in one poll has improved the perception of the nation as a whole have come to the bill and say it is approving of it more now since the shutdown. he sees his prospects have risen. our fox poll shows the opposite on obamacare. let me throw another one at you. maybe more damaging to the president than his approval rating are these numbers. 76% of americans think the country is headed in the wrong direction. that is an increase of 13 points since the government shutdown began. whether the president likes it or not he is considered the leader of washington. so are those numbers a
focus is on the shutdown and not the terrible i m implementation of the bill. the conservatives are arguing in an op-ad that they have elevated the focus on terrible it looks. 60% would vote to defeat every mep of member of congress. but that is misleading. that s not how voting happens. they are voted on in their district and those numbers can and usually are dramatically different. absolutely. there is a strange dye cot me. when you ask the american public at a whole do they like congress? congress are all bums. throw them out. do you like joe smith, your congressman? he is the best. he is really good. that changes dramatically. and i think most people on the left and right think it is unlikely in the next round of elections and the republican house will go to the democrats. the democrats are going to get
24th and ended 21 hours later. so with no budget deal, by midnight on october 1st, the government shutdown took affect. four days later the house voted to pay furloughed federal workers after the shutdown ends. but on october 8th, the pressure began to mount with finger .ing finger-pointing over failed debt ceiling negotiations. the next day the house voted to pay for halted death benefits to military families. the president signed the measure into law on thursday. that same day, house republicans proposed a short-term proposal raising the debt ceiling by six weeks. yesterday senate republicans had their turn proposing ways to end the stalemate. that brings us to today. the house and the senate are holding sessions earlier this morning and wrapping and still month deal in sight on day 12 of the government shutdown. despite the shutdown several states are deciding to go ahead and open national parks and federal programs.
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.