That let me turn to the man who negotiated last weeks compromise with the white house, Senate Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell. Thank you for joining us, senator. Good morning, george. I know you think the deal you negotiated is imperfect and you want to fix it as we approach the debt limit. You say no increase in the debt limit without major cuts in spending. The president says he wont even negotiate over that. So to borrow general David Petraeus famous quote from the iraq war, how does this end . Well, first let me say these lastminute deals are no way to run the government. Weve known all of these deadlines are coming. Why we end up in these lastminute discussions is beyond me. We need to function. I mean the house of representatives, for example, passed a budget every year. Theyve passed appropriation bills. The Senate Democratic majority and the president seem to like these lastminute deals, and we know these three issues are coming up, the sequester, the debt ceiling and the con
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