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WASHINGTON (KT) – U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Louisville, announced Wednesday the Department of Housing and Urban Development will provide Kentucky with $48,983,000 to help the state recover from
Has never ever been controversial. and the other thing that's really disturbing is everything now. the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, the continuing budget resolution. everything is used as a bargaining chip to get their way in this very ideological way. you said you don't doubt the congressman's sincerity on deficit reduction. i do. when you look at the fact that he didn't vote for the fiscal cliff deal. if you're talking about deficit reduction from raising revenues, he's not on board at all. he only wants to see it come from cuts. so it's a specific piece of ideology that he is coming from...
This. i don't know how you ask that question. if your child needed a life-saving operation would you sit around and say we could borrow the money but am i really going to do this? no. if this was his state you can't help but come to the conclusion he would be there. not saying how can we use this as leverage really to get our way rather than just saying what's the best and most effective way we can get help to the people that need it. >> and richard, it's another blatant example of the republicans going all the way to the edge like they did the fiscal cliff. i mean, you see these examples of h...
Warfare. >> that nightmare scenario triple threat includes raising the debt ceiling. you remember the last time that was fought over, the u.s. credit rating was downgraded. the sequester deadline was march 1st and then there's that continuing budget resolution. that expires on march 27th. i'm joined by the national journal's congressional correspondent. chris, ain't we got fun here? zit like one crisis to another, chris. >> compared to the fiscal cliff, how serious is this triple sf t threat? >> i think a lot of folks will tell you and i agree that the fiscal cliff pales in comparison to the d...