to are frustrated that conservatives aren t more conservative and we don t hold a line. you saw the usa today or new york post headline, u.s. of angry. when they are angry, eventually they take action rather than being in malaise. the bottom line is you can uh sell people fear and dependency, only for so long. people who have been getting a prescription to be tranquilized with food stamps or unemployment for 99 weeks, they get mad. why? they get the game being played to disempower them. this is the disempowerment president. while the anger may be multi faceted, it uh will settle on the oval office eventually. it has to. the truth always wins. alexis? the president is not running again. so the real challenge the republicans had thank god. no one could put this up
to are frustrated that conservatives aren t more conservative and we don t hold a line. you saw the usa today or new york post headline, u.s. of angry. when they are angry, eventually they take action rather than being in malaise. the bottom line is you can uh sell people fear and dependency, only for so long. people who have been getting a prescription to be tranquilized with food stamps or unemployment for 99 weeks, they get mad. why? they get the game being played to disempower them. this is the disempowerment president. while the anger may be multi faceted, it uh will settle on the oval office eventually. it has to. the truth always wins. alexis? the president is not running again. so the real challenge the republicans had thank god. no one could put this up against except for themselves.
we re going to deal with the debt ceiling and not reopen the government? we ll do it if we have to, but what was maybe most surprising is how vocal the house republicans brethren in the senate were about the fact that they want the government to be reopened. we re talking about a wide range of republicans from mccain to john cornyn, the number two republican in the senate, telling ted barrett he hopes they deal with this and you know, i m hearing also from house republicans that from sources that there is a lot growing concern about the polls and about the fact that they are really feeling the heat back home, not all of them, some of the conservatives aren t, but many moderates are. there will be a big push to get this government opened even by republicans soon. the polls show the american public is blaming everyone but republicans, a bit more than democrats right now. dana, stand by. our senior white house correspondent jim acosta is over at the white house. what can you tell us a
direction. why in the heck would we want to go backwards? we have had deficit spending actually going back to 2000, to the end of the bill clinton administration, the start of the george w. bush administration. but go ahead and respond, congressman, to what you just heard. it s tough to respond, wolf, because that s why we re in this situation. we have very hardcore group of members who believe contrary to all the evidence, contrary to all the experts, that if you just go ahead and stop paying for your past bills, that it s okay. that is playing with fire and it s unfortunate because those who believe they can play with fire here in congress don t recognize that the folks who are going to get burned aren t the folks in congress. we make a pretty good wage. it s every american family that has to pay their bills day to day, month to month. they re the ones looking at us saying wait a minute, i pay my bills because i know if i m going to keep my mortgage or keep my car, i ve got to pa
the statisticses unquestionab unquestionably. unemployment it s bad for every demographic group. blacks have lost jobs for obamacare is ridiculous. we have fewer blacks working than when he became president. black teenage unemployment at nearly 50%. nearly double the number of people on food stamps in this country and more people in poverty. we have had a terrible recession he inherited from another administration. blaming bush. why not? it s lame at this point. all day long all you heard was political rhetoric. where were the conservatives? in fairness, the speech martin luther king gave and the issues they had to deal with back then were awful. i told you on the five today my blood boils when i hear how blacks were treated this in country. what makes me angry today is that you don t see leaders from both sides of the aisle, because conservatives aren t invited to