we have become weaker you don t think it em boldens putin or iran? they will do whatever is in their own self-interest. china does what china does. they are not getting involved in any military conflicts. second question, if we don t pesh assad for this human punish assad for this human rights violation, do we lose any moral authority? how could we go in and punish anyone else if they used bacterial warfare, biological warfare, gas again, do relose the moral authority to do it? a way to look at it, bill, we lose moral authority in this case by acting. first of all syria is not part of the 72 or the 93 biological warfare convention. so there is a very stiff case to be made that military intervention here would be illegal for us to do because they are not part of that. number one. number two, the world doesn t
you don t think it em boldens putin or iran? they will do whatever is in their own self-interest. china does what china does. they are not getting involved in any military conflicts. second question, if we don t pesh assad for this human punish assad for this human rights violation, do we lose any moral authority? how could we go in and punish anyone else if they used bacterial warfare, biological warfare, gas again, do relose the moral authority to do it? a way to look at it, bill, we lose moral authority in this case by acting. first of all syria is not part of the 72 or the 93 biological warfare convention. so there is a very stiff case to be made that military intervention here would be illegal for us to do because they are not part of that. number one. number two, the world doesn t want us to do this.
probably isn t the right one to be used. after all, if you go over a cliff, you usually don t get to live to tell about it unless you re batman or spider-man, but there are things that actually would happen right away and one of those things that would be right away in a negative impact would be unemployment benefits and 2 million americans would see the unemployment benefits and that would hurt the economy and that would hurt these people that are relying on this and the unemployment insurance has been seen as economic stimulus to get hands into the money of people who need it and they were things that actually get spread over the course of 2013 if there is no fix that is actually done and it is possible for congress to go back and fix things and talking about the increase of tax rates and there will also be spending cuts to government programs as well as the military and that will be spread over with 2013 and the world doesn t come to an end if we go over this quote, unquote, fiscal
been better, but i don t want to lock the process for everybody. steve so he is in a powerful position because it s better for him and everyone if the senate has a unanimous consent as to what should happen. kick it over to the house. reed and mcconnell was interviewed side-by-side, it was a rare interview last month. i want to play you about what he said in that interview. and we will get your reaction on the other side. take a listen. what was the feeling in that room for you? it was very chilly, they did not look at each other once during the course of the interview. i thought it would be interesting to see if there was any common ground and we found none. we with found none. that doesn t sound like the two men get along very well. i don t know that mitch mcconnell has a lot of democratic friend that s pals around with, to be honest with you. so that is not terribly surprising to me. he is is not known as being that
and the president on this? or are they going to the are the republicans going to have to blink at some point ? well, i think they are going to have to blink at some point but we may have to go over the cliff or as i see it it s not really a cliff. it s a slow incline or a hill. because all of the world doesn t have end on january 2nd. all the leverage is with president obama and it was really fascinating to watch him today compared to where he was on the debt ceiling fight a year and a half ago. two big differences. one is, back then, he was genuinely afraid that the republicans weren t going to pass the debt ceiling and he ended up making quite a few concessions. and now, if nothing happens, all the tax all the clinton tax rates come back and so he can just say, you know, i m going to veto anything that just continues it all and it won t get through the senate anyway and he s got the election. you re right to show that