we re not going to do anything about the debt or anything else that s important to the country. any specific idea? keystone pipeline. a good example of something that would create jobs for the american people. the house of representatives will initiate the discussion on the debt ceiling increase. they probably will have other ideas. how about banning any bailout, this affecting the risk corridors on obamacare? all of those would be important steps in the right direction. we need not have a default we never got a default. the speaker and i made that clear. we ve never done that. but, it s irresponsible not to use the discussion the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling to try to accomplish something for the country. i know you like being senate minority leader. i know you would even prefer to be senate majority leader so let s talk about the playing field for the november election in 2014. democrats now have a 55-45-seat
about the debt or anything else that s important to the country. any specific idea? keystone pipeline. a good example of something that would create jobs for the american people. the house of representatives will initiate the discussion on the debt ceiling increase. they probably will have other ideas. how about banning any bailout, this affecting the risk corridors on obamacare? all of those would be important steps in the right direction. we need not have a default we never got a default. the speaker and i made that clear. we ve never done that. but, it s irresponsible not to use the discussion the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling to try to accomplish something for the country. i know you like being senate minority leader. i know you would even prefer to be senate majority leader so let s talk about the playing field for the november election in 2014. democrats now have a 55-45-seat advantage but the democrats must
about the debt or anything else that s important to the country. any specific idea? keystone pipeline. a good example of something that would create jobs for the american people. the house of representatives will initiate the discussion on the debt ceiling increase. they probably will have other ideas. how about banning any bailout, this affecting the risk corridors on obamacare? all of those would be important steps in the right direction. we need not have a default we never got a default. the speaker and i made that clear. we ve never done that. but, it s irresponsible not to use the discussion the request of the president to raise the debt ceiling to try to accomplish something for the country. i know you like being senate minority leader. i know you would even prefer to be senate majority leader so let s talk about the playing field for the november election in 2014. democrats now have a 55-45-seat advantage but the democrats must
see the unemployment situation getting any better. they don t expect the job numbers to get any better. this is deep pessimism where this country is and yes, while people kind of like this guy, they don t give him very high marks on being effective. they don t blame him for the recession that led to all of this, but they certainly don t give him high marks on getting us out of it. jon: yeah, jamie, is this why we ll hear a lotp a apparently in the state state of the union about income inequality? they hope that will be the issue to propel them to victory in midterm elections in 2014. democrats are harping on income inequality, but as you saw in the poll it doesn t seem to be a burning issue with most americans. only 13% said the government should do something about income inequality. it is the government s responsibility. the question, you will hear something about it but will it resonate and be a driving issue in 2014? the polls suggest not so much.
to say that. we re in the highest deficit of all time. should they pay for this? perhaps. we could look at sugar industry. oil and gas industry. lots of places we could look for pay fors. the finance committee. ways and means committee, they have inches and inches and lists of pay fors that they could easily pull out. once you do that, you take from one and give to the other and that makes everybody mad. the pressure will build on the house if the senate passes it and i think they will pass something. you set me up well for this. as we look to continually strategize over how to goose this economy and goose it correctly because looming next in congress is the fight over minimum wage. president obama has signaled that economic and equality is a huge topic on his agenda in 2014. democrats think it will be the big issue in the midterm elections and they want to run on that issue. are democrats gambling too much