few days later. we were ready to debate, discuss, subject it to all amendment processes and everything else that a normal piece of legislation guess through. harry reid and the democratic caucus decided to kill it. they tabled it before it had a single opportunity. not just for a vote on the merits for any debate discussion or amendment. now they want to convert this into a bipartisan commission setting aside the fact that 17 such commissions have failed in the past. we ve got already two perfectly good constitutionally empowered bipartisan commissions one is the senate, one is the house. they are trying to bypass this and cram down the throats of the american people a precooked deal that their elected leaders won t have the opportunity to debate and discuss on the permits merits. sean: i like the fact they are going to get more in cuts than in terms of raising the debt ceiling. but i m skeptical.
lousy. i don t think the debate is going to be critical. first off, it s the saturday before christmas on a saturday night. nobody is going to be watching this. it s going to be people are going to learn by reading the paper rather than seeing the debate. sanders and o malley have complained about the timing of debates and the number. we have also seen ted cruz crack jokes on the campaign trail about these debates happening when nobody is watching and the new york times wrote about the invisible democratic debates this week saying the democratic candidates have been hidden in a closet. thank you so much. tonight a special debate discussion. we ll sit down with dnc chairwoman and we will hear from a powerhouse panel on how candidates handled the hot topics. that special is at 11:00 p.m.
this. donald, good to have you. hi. what do you make of this? it was commissioned by obama. it was a very, very strong report, and he wants no part of it. he wants to really just pretend it never happened, and the democrats want to pretend it never happened also. they should be somewhat ashamed of themselves. it should be a question for debate. there is no question about that. what cow what would you think, donald would keep the debt commission off at least that first debate discussion? well, i would be surprised. i don t think anything should be left off the table. this is a vicious campaign. obama is being unbelievably vicious and his people. and the kind of things they are saying, i just don t think anything should be left off the table. mitt and the republicans will be and have to be very, very tough, very strong. i am just wondering what could be the logic in this position. the debt commission came out with a lot of proposals.