that would have made a difference with longer lead time. here we are during this short term period. i m not hopeful. andrea, dan says it appears that events have gotten away from the president. what can he do and what is actually possible? he can put a plan on paper, but what is possible here? put a plan on paper. it s not going to get through congress, then make it his argument, his fight, taking the fight to congress and shift the blame for the bad situation we are in. nothing short term is going to produce the jobs he needs by election day. alex, we are going to shift blame. that s the plan. blame shifting. dan brings up an important point. obama had an opportunity to make an argument there s a difference between short-term spending and
the deficit and raise the debt ceiling. meanwhi meanwhile, the specter of default comes ever closer. frankly, it s the tone of these debates that has a lot of people scared and this is a guy who s scaring a lot of folks tonight. congressman joe walsh, republican from illinois, a freshman backed by the tea party. he s been known to say blunt things when criticizing president obama. these comments might just take the cake. i want to show you a video congressman walsh shot and posted to his website yesterday. president obama, quit lying. you know darn well if august 2nd comes and goes, there s plenty of money to pay off our debt and cover all of our social security obligations. i know you have a willing media that protects everything you say and do. but have you no shame, sir? in three short years, you ve bankrupted this country and destroyed job creation. you re with ee ee eer either in your head, you don t understand what makes this country great, or you re hell-bent in turn
is that the idea? right now, for example, bp has only a $75 million liability. that is beyond the cleanup. they will have to clean up but when commercial fishermen are harmed, shrimp fishermen are harmed, seafood processing plants are harmed, coastal communities lose tourism, and on and on and on, their liability is limited. that s ridiculous. we want to raise it to $10 billion. consider that bp made $5.6 billion in profit, not proceeds, profits, in the first three months of this year alone, i think they can afford to pay it. given everything you did today, and with all the blame shifting, were you able to discern who is most responsible at this point? of the three parties you had in front of you, is there a clear villain here? well, i don t think we were able to deduce that today. we are certainly going to need
president and the republican party. the president keeps talking about the democrats are at fault. reporter: this is an impressive bit of politics right here, to see the president come out today and say repeatedly, this is the fault of nancy pelosi. this is the fault of democrats, pau because we couldn t get anybody on board. the reality is, the white house didn t work all that hard to get democrats on board for this legislation. they knew there was really no chance they were going to convince democrats in the house to support any kind of repeal and replace for obamacare. but you re seeing this blame shifting, tand it is telling to see the president blaming democrats rather than paul ryan. we heard him take pains to layer praise upon the house speaker and make sure to place this blame squarely on the democrats. it will be interesting to see how this plays out in future negotiations, how comfortable