are they going to get this through before august? the house asked uld a vote, want able to get to that vote and the house members went page. pretty rapidly after that and came to a vote and passed this to send it to the senate. we re seeing the same thing with the senate. they wanted to schedule a vote. that vote never happened. senators went to the white house, and now they re working on it again. mitch mcconnell has a lot of wiggle room with the 300 billion in deficit cuts where he can t hand it out to wary republicans. but, and it s a really big but, the president is getting in the way of this. and i ll just point to the two people that he had next to him the other day in that white house meeting. he had senator murkowski and senator collins sits next to them. both of them were very against the health care bill because of how it affected their states. both of them were
think. people have a point about obama care. if they don t like it, they can work it out. if you re upset about the debt ceiling, work it out, but don t shut down the government. that s why the republicans are losing traction and the latest polls show it. i m not going to argue, and i said the shutdown is being pinned mostly on the republicans. i think that was a predictable outcome. but i would remind you that most americans also think that the debt ceiling should be attached to spending cuts. that is a feasible thing most americans understand that. so you can play polls against each other. they don t like obama care, but they don t like the shutdown. they want the debt ceiling attached the spending cuts. i mean, there s a lot of sort of reaction you could look at here. but i think the take away is that republicans are divided on the tactics over how to achieve all the same things. all republicans want entitlement reform, tax reform, spending cuts, deficit cuts, and to end obama car
i mean, when you look at who s impacted by this, when you look at who can t defend themselves in some of the cases, the se seniors and these kids, have we become so insensitive in washington these people are just you know, they re expendable at the alter of my political career? yeah. i think david is right. a lot of what republicans do, their rhetoric around deficit cuts is really an excuse to try to cut exactly these kinds of programs. and even if you re a totally utterly heartless person and you could care less whether that senior gets their food, their meals on wheels that week, you re really being penny wise and pound foolish. ultimately you want to have kids going to preschool so that they can participate in the labor market later on. you want seniors to be healthy and getting good nutrition so they don t wind up in nursing homes or more expensive hospital care.
have. told senators that i would let them release their own plans. have you got any regrets? i don t think you have any turn downs to have dinner at the white house. the fact that he s looking for a compromise when it comes to a budget deal, what they re coming to the table with is basically a 3$3.7 trillion deficit cuts. budgets are eye of the beholder documents, if you want to find something to hate, you can find it, if you want to find something to like you can find it. the one part of his proposal is that he put changed cpi of social security and medicare. we have got to find where we can find common ground and that s one place where i think we can. one thing common ground revenue has certainly been a hot