run away executive any more. it is calling into question whether congress will pay the bills it has already chosen to incur. like buying a tv then taking a family vote on whether or not you will pay for it when the check comes due. but this is not like grandfather clocks. this is like bleeding someone you suspect to be a witch. the global crisis probably would result. even if we return back to sanity and begin paying our bills again, america s borrowing costs would be forever higher and the market s confidence would be permanently harmed. the bipartisan policy sector estimates the near miss we had in 2011 cost us $18.9 billion. billion with a b. that is 18.9 billion. we lost for no reason. it didn t buy us any government services or lower anybody s taxes by even a dime. it is time to get rid of the debt ceiling. and don t take it from me. take it from the policy makers
megyn: last time around senator obama was campaigning on getting us out of these wars and he won the younger veterans. this time around he increased the troops in afghanistan but has set a deadline for withdrawal. we are all but out of iraq. he s not running against a decorated war veteran this time around. what do you glean from that? i m delighted that he s interested in the military vote and the family vote. i think that s a plus. now in direct contrast to that is:he doesn t get the absentee ballots out in the states he s not going to get that vote. if he s trying to get the votes and he doesn t get the states to get the ballots out on time that will be a problem. the strategy we have in afghanistan is not a successful strategy. we can still win with a smaller number of troops. we need to go to a
women? is it all military? there is the veterans vote, the older guys and gals who lean strongly conservative. there are the active duty people who lean conservative but can be suede either way. and they are smart and they listen to the policy statement. the third is the family vote. the spouses. they are a prime target for obama as he has figured out because they are tired of seeing their spouse go away time and again, then listen together spouses when they come home complain about the hopelessness of afghanistan. obama is clever. he s a guy that doubled down in afghanistan, now he s taking credit for undoing his own policy. i see governor romney god bless him is absent without leave. he s not standing up on foreign policy issues in an intelligent way and he doesn t seem to know our military with any way.