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Of a debt problem and the american people have a different definition than president obama and the senate democrats. >> senator cruz, glad you stood up this week for principle. well be watching closely tomorrow. then well watch the house after that. well see. thank you so much. i hope you get more rest over the weekend. thanks for being with us. >> thank you for everything youre doing. up next the house republicans appear to have a deal in the works to fund the government but delay the obamaca...

Debt increases nationally. leadership means the buck stops here. washington is shifting the burden of bad choices on to the backs of our children and grandchildren. america has a debt problem and failure of leadership. america deserves better. i intend to oppose the debt limit. this is another example here. i would argue, as obama said he is being distorted. that is when the debt was 8 trillion. >> evidences wrong to say i -- evidences wrong to say -- he wa to say it. >> how convenient. >> fiddl...

Debt waeg weakens us. leadership means the buck stops here. washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today to the back of our children and grandchildren. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. america deserves better. i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase americas debt limit. this is just another example here, i would argue, because obama said hes being extorted. that was when the debt was $8 trillion. its now 17. >> he was wrong to say that. were wrong to ...

Debt waeg weakens us. leadership means the buck stops here. washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today to the back of our children and grandchildren. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. america deserves better. i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase americas debt limit. this is just another example here, i would argue, because obama said hes being extorted. that was when the debt was $8 trillion. its now 17. >> he was wrong to say that. were wrong to ...

Debt waeg weakens us. leadership means the buck stops here. washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today to the back of our children and grandchildren. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. america deserves better. i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase americas debt limit. this is just another example here, i would argue, because obama said hes being extorted. that was when the debt was $8 trillion. its now 17. >> he was wrong to say that. were wrong to ...

Debt ceiling in october. listen to what the president said. >> you have never seen in the history of the united states the debt ceiling or the threat of not raising the debt ceiling being used to extort a president or a governing party and trying to force issues that have nothing to do with the budget and have nothing to do with the debt. >> go ahead, respond to the president. >> listen, you know well that in 2006, barack obama made a speech talking about how we were mortgaging our childrens fut...

Fresh off your magazine spread in "vogue". very well-done. not easy to do from western kentucky. listen, your republican colleagues are saying that you guys are waving the white flag already and that the republicans in the senate are just going to cave in. what do you say to that? >> well, that would not be me. im not planning on voting for any funding for obamacare. i think, im also not planning for any funding that breaks the sequester. we really have to do something about this spending proble...

Step further and said this whole obsession with debts and deficits that started with simpson-bowles might have been completely wrong. one way i read your column was to say if simpson-bowles had their fantasy and their plan had been enacted, it would have been a terrible thing. >> not necessarily for the long term. there is a long-term debt problem in the u.s., dont get me wrong. but the impact of short-term austerity here in the last 18 months, particularly this year with sequestration and with ...

Observer? >> well, it comes to down to what all politics is all about,s the money. and when you go home to districts and get in town hall meetings with republicans like nick mulvaney or jeff duncan, you hear what you said when we open the show, an insurmountable debt problem. so it doesnt matter, this wont be the last time were talking about spending. i hear it all the time. folks back home dont think we have a revenue problem in washington. they think we have a spending problem in washington. a...

Debt problem, which weve talked about a lot. let me go back to what david said. he may not think hes an economics guy, but i think he put his finger on a number of important problems here. one, congress is doing nothing. there are things they could do that dont necessarily cost a lot of money but would help the economy, in terms of programs to train workers, a long laundry list, and theyre doing nothing. the question is also about the other problems that affect this economy, for example, the fac...