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Because theyve chosen the wrong way to go about doing this. lets pass the bill. lets pass the clean cr. lets get the government back working. and then you can try to amend obama care all you want. but the two things arent tied together. and until they understand that theyre going to keep making fools of themselves. >> now, let me ask you this, goldie. "the new york times" reported stayed that speaker boehner wont let the nation default. he quote -- this is a quote. "he has told colleagues that h...

The way i voted we wouldnt be anywhere near the debt limit we are right now. >> and thank you for your time tonight. all right, coming up. >> the best thing the senate could have done on the first cr, they could have stripped everything out and moved the spending level number higher and say that is what were going to do. and this is our proposal, and then drop back down later and say we were here, now were back to here. they havent been negotiating at all. and so it is like why should we keep ne...

Enough. we precompromised our compromises. we gave away single payer already. thats a compromise. we gave away public option. and even with this c.r., we are rolling over and giving republicans 100% of the budget cuts that they want. $70 billion worth. that is a compromise. mr. president, dont cave and dont start giving away any more stuff. stick to what you told cnbc this afternoon. >> during the course of my presidency, i have bent over backwards to work with the republican party. and one thin...

Seuss and everything else they want to do. >> for the first four years under president obama, even first two when democrats controlled everything there was no budget. i love that you now demand a budget. republicans have been demanding budgets for the past four years. its nice to finally have one. >> you didnt pass a budget you pass a c.r. i think we all agree here it would be great to get a grand bargain, at least a budget. but in the absence of that your job is to pass a c.r. the president agr...

Of the government under a cloak so hopefully no one will notice. woe will not allow it. its unacceptable and we have a clean cr. we have the number we comp moized to and we need to move on about the business of implementing the affordable care act as of tuesday and bringing down costs for so many people. >> let me ask you a couple of questions. i know by law you get a paycheck. do you plan on keeping anything that you receive in salary as a member of congress? >> because i support everybody who ...

But the number attached to the clean cr, if youre going the fund the government how much should the government get? what is the budget, it is a budget bill. lets start out with what the obama administration asked for when they released their budget. 1 trillion, 203 billion, that was the obama target for the budget. by comparison, this was the 2011 compromise, a budget of 1 trillion 66 billion, and here was the budget put together by senate democrats, it is lower still. now lets look at the senat...

Together. why not take a chance and tell the republicans, im going out. im going to put a clean c.r. on the bill. i dare you to vote me out of office. im more interested in saving this country and saving this party than saving my political -- if its true eric cantor is waiting. >> i dont know. just -- its hard to do this. all the anger and all the emotion and ideology out and assume these people were smart. why doesnt boehner understand you cant ask obama for his baby. in a kidnapping you grab t...

>> no think i dont think they should capitulate at all. >> so what would you suggest? >> do you think if we had a republican president in office and the democrats wanted to stick some gun legislation into the budget, a cr, a continuing resolution for our nations budget, how do you think that would go over? would you approve of that tactic from the left because thats the tactic of the right? >> if the republicans were in the white house we wouldnt have a president that didnt pass the budget. >> j...

With the c.r. lets put them together, go to conference committee. what happened? harry reid said absolutely not. they voted it down and it went away. we wont negotiate. we wont talk. >> talking about the real budget. there was a chance for a conference on the real budget. thats how congress is really supposed to work. [ overlapping speakers ] >> the house passed the budget and the senate passed a budget. >> in the divided government weve all seen the past two years, there is zero chance these pe...

Care from being fully implemented. right now thats the c.r. >> there are two things about that that are weird. one is, at least two things about it that are weird. one is that if youre so convinced its going to be a train wreck, then in some ways its strange youre afraid to let it go into place. i can understand maybe youre trying to help keep people from being hurt. whats really strange about this is, youre saying youre representing the concerns of all the people. and yet if you had a vote righ...