blame us for them? nice try. our nation, of course, remains exceptional. but we have been debilitated by two wars that we did not win back and now we are sitting on $30 trillion of debt republicans and democrats both responsible for that. but as long as the u.s. stays weak economically, the world would become a harsher and far more cruel place. that is news to the left which has been the last 16 years attacking our middle class. rather than trying to fix big problems and make america better, they just use this as an opportunity to demonize their political adversaries. think about the stupidity of this. we are on the verge of war. and we still have the same military leadership in place who couldn t get us out of afghanistan the right way. that is brilliant. and we are on the verge of war and our trade policies are still making china, russia s new strong friend, richer by the
and the house held a big meeting to try to hash out a way forward. we re going to talk to the progressive caucus leader, pramila jayapal about what went down in that meeting republicans were busy killing a bill that would have simply kept the government open and running past the next 72 hours and raised the debt ceiling, avoiding a deliberate fault on the ecoadult and economic calam that would ensue it would do nothing but keep the government open and avoid a self-inflicted financial calamity and the republicans fill bustered it which means the democrats in the senate and the house are now going to have to figure out how to pass legislation by thursday night keeping the government running at some point very soon they re going to have to figure out how to avoid the country deliberately defaulting on its debt republicans have not just checked out on even the most basic tasks of governs, they re
it s about trying to given all the money was spent doing the trump years. and the growth of government during that period. now it s all about, we are physical conservatives and the democrats are one sort of knocking folks out there spending money. that people don t have. but at the end of the day this story is going to play out the way it always has. they will not be a shut down because the debt republicans often give the short end of that stick, so why would you try to set up if you re trying to set up 2022 you re not going to be able to do it successfully on this issue. you may be able to come out it on other things. you know 3.5 trillion dollars in infrastructure spending or whatever. but on something like this that go so fundamentally to that safety net. that many of those republicans
smart as marco rubio wants to talk about damage to infrastructure or hurt soldiers. does that mean he wouldn t have gone into iraq? that s crazy for republicans to say that stuff. anyway, to answer your question about occupy wall street, listen, occupy wall street, i think it s this is halloween season, republicans are in a fright over occupy wall street. how scared republicans are that, in fact, it s activating the democratic base. and it s changing the native. narrative going away from high unemployment and problems with the debt republicans represent all these rich wall street guys who are going to get the big bonuses over the holidays and all of a sudden people are talking about occupy wall street as evidence, you know, somebody standing up against the corporations and the banks. someone saying the rich should pay more taxes that s all over the country. are you scared of the occupiers? are you frightened of their message and their delivery? no, not particularly.
smart as marco rubio wants to talk about damage to infrastructure or hurt soldiers. does that mean he wouldn t have gone into iraq? that s crazy for republicans to say that stuff. anyway, to answer your question about occupy wall street, listen, occupy wall street, i think it s this is halloween season, republicans are in a fright over occupy wall street. how scared republicans are that, in fact, it s activating the democratic base. and it s changing the native. narrative going away from high unemployment and problems with the debt republicans represent all these rich wall street guys who are going to get the big bonuses over the holidays and all of a sudden people are talking about occupy wall street as evidence, you know, somebody standing up against the corporations and the banks. someone saying the rich should pay more taxes that s all over the country. are you scared of the occupiers? are you frightened of their message and their delivery? no, not particularly.