i think he s clearly agitated that this campaign of hysteria did not stop the sequester. used to the campaigns being effective an winning the campaigns and i think he didn t really want to be here. at this moment. with the sequester happening talking about the cr, how to strategize a government shutdown or against a government shutdown. not a happy guy and it s rare that we see i m not i m not gloating. nothing to gloat about. this is a loser for everyone. it s just rare to see a strategy that was clearly implemented from the white house not really pan out the way he wanted it. usually does. surely didn t pan out the way he wanted to. i know we watched the press conference. i could hear it in your office. i didn t take him as agitated. really? he was psyched today. great day. he s not psyched but i did all that i could. i bargained in good faith and with a group of people that do
of furloughs don t actually take effect for about a month so it s not clear that there s going to be a lot of public sentiment and anger. that s a big question mark in all of this moving forward. so the big question is, how does this all get resolved? likely gets resolved at the end of march. that is when congress, the white house will have to deal with the continuing resolution which, of course, is the government funding bill. they will have to renew that so they ll likely also deal with the sequester. at that point in time, there s a larger issue, the cycle that washington is stuck in. the cycling of the self-manufactured crises. president obama talked about it today and didn t really give a clear response how to work the way out of this and given they come up every few months, by the way, the debt ceiling comes up this summer and hard to see how they work out of the rut and president obama mapped out an ambitious second term agenda. in terms of taking on guns,
i ll let you finish your thought. but here, let me just clarify the question i was trying it pose to you. there s no question that both parties are to blame for the sequester if you consider is blame worthy, but when the president comes out here and says these people are going to get laid off look at the poor first responders, they re going to go. blah, blah, it was his idea. he signed it into law and to hear it now, those evil republicans they did all of it, it was his brainchild. i think circumstances have changed and i think it was the president, what mark said is not true. the president s proposed an alternative both the senate and house, democratic leadership proposed alternatives to forego sequest sequester. clearly those that want to get to done and the abstraction of cutting the budget is real and tangible. if we cut the budget, there s going to be real pain for americans. going to be people who hold the government jobs and benefits cut and part of what s going to happen next
united states senate. that includes the sequester that begins two weeks from today. we are going to suggest that he enact a plan to replace the s sequest sequester. if they are willing to pass a bill we will find a way to work with them. he told the associate press that he is not interested in a bargain to avert the quesequest. remember, we are going to be stuck with it. frankly, every time i ve got ten into one of these negotiations, it is my rear end that got burnt. not as sensitive about their rear ends announce their plan to
that committee. and the senate finance committee holding jack lew s confirmation hearing. patrick donnahue is being questioned about the post office s financial troubles. and military officials testifying before the armed services committee about the potential impact of the sequest sequester. we have our eyes on all of it for you. we ll keep you posted. the president is less than an hour away from his first post state of the union remarks in north carolina. we want to bring in and say good morning to our state of the union post game political power panel, and it s a good one. michael crowley for time magazine. the cover was on the man who gave the republican response. and karen finney, also a columnist for the hill. it s great to have all four of you here. a mega panel. may r your reid, the president has left washington, d.c. taking his message on the road.