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Its shocking that dennis mcdonough has a countdown clock trying to basically push hhs to be ready for this thing and kathleen sebelius and everybody else is complaining about it. she made fun of him. lets be honest here, okay. put on your analyst cap and not your former dnc chairman cap. be honest here. is this perhaps one of the greatest failings of a democratic president that youve ever swheeen when it comes to mismanagement. >> there was terrible mismanagement. but if it was my program i woul...

This guy is a walking incident, you know? >> but he was before they hired him. >> thats what i mean. >> they shouldnt have hired him in the first place. and i also think we should have a countdown clock for the moment when he and his wife, when she calls the cops on him because that marriage is a ticking time bomb. >> wow! >> anger management issues? >> i know so. >> she instigated the linda schmidt controversy. she said thats the girl. >> just ask kim basinger. watch. >> billy is the superstar ...

Can get the sprawling list of issues with the healthcare.gov site under control. and have everything operating smoothly by the end of next month. that would give the uninsured about four months to sign up in time for the march 31st deadline and avoid being fined by the irs. four months. oh, im sorry, i kind of expected a cnn countdown clock to spontaneously spring up on the screen when i said that, an immaculately conceived graphic. qssi will be headed up the efforts. the to-do list includes tac...

Lets start with you, christine romans, obviously, it is good news, frustrating that well probably go through exactly the same nonsense again in january and february. put it in a proper perspective for me. how painful has that all been to date for the american economy? >> oh, our national nightmare is over, right, piers, over for a little bit. then you have to get your little countdown clock again in january, this is how serious it is, $24 billion to the economy, to put that in perspective that i...

Thats a couple years of full funding for the reduced and free school lanch program. $24 billion is real money. in normal times, youd be able to make that up. if this were a hurricane, for example, or a natural disaster. its a natural disaster caused by man, by congress, youd be able to make up that economic hit. we still have budget battles to go through. thats why markets are still concerned and the economy still could continue to be hit by the budget drama. futures are lower this morning in th...

Agreed to, drum roll, please, do its job. thats two full years of the school lunch program for example. thats the gap we have in airport improvements that really important infrastructure. you could recover that if we werent in this per pbudget fig mess. dont put this countdown clock away because well have to pull it out again in a few months. if we didnt have all of this budget fighting, maybe you would make up the 24 billion but were at the beginning of congress doing its job. >> jonathan in yo...

$24 billion, and theyve now downgraded the estimate of the economic growth in the fourth quarter of this year. they earlier thought it was going to be 3% economic growth. they now think, because of the uncertainty of whats about to happen in january and february, and people are going to be reluctant to hire, big business or whatever, they now think it could be closer to 2%. that means jobs. that means a lot of money. >> it does. and when youre talking about jobs, 2% economic growth is not going ...

Countdown clock the deadline is less than 15 hours away, the debt ceiling closes in, the partial government shutdown drags on and washingtons dysfunction is shaming even the lawmakers. >> its not a big thing or dont worry about it, thats ridiculous. this is a big thing and going to harm not just this economy but economies all over the world. and were not going to do that. if we do, i think they should all ask for our resignation. they should ask for all of our resignations if we cant come togeth...

Treasury says extraordinary measures, we run out. you say it wont be probably until october 23rd that we actually go into default. what do we look for? what happens? when we had the shutdown, we had the countdown clock because there was a statutory moment at which authority for the government to spend money ran out. how should we think about the countdown that youre engaged in this week? >> theres not as easy a way to count this one down, because i dont even think, frankly, as you point out, tre...

October 16th is when the treasury says extraordinary measures, we run out. you say it wont be probably until october 23rd that we actually go into default. what do we look for? what happens? when we had the shutdown, we had the countdown clock because there was a statutory moment at which authority for the government to spend money ran out. how should we think about the countdown that youre engaged in this week? >> theres not as easy a way to count this one down, because i dont even think, frank...