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Support clean debt ceiling increases, but because heritage action is committed to giving house leadership the flexibility they need to refocus the debate on obama care, we will not vote against the reported proposal. so we're not going to, basically, hold them accountable if they raise the debt ceiling. so this is heritage saying we want to fight about obama care, we don't want to fight about debt ceiling. if republicans raise the debt ceiling, we're not going to sort of score you down as a conservative, but i keep thinking, well, yeah. i mean, how would you score someone down for doing their ...

Pay, he said stay tuned for jack lew on thursday. that's coming up. the president is holding his ground. he's saying, listen, we're not going to do anything other than clean crs and clean debt ceiling increases. he said he's open to a process after that. >> all right. good point. jim acosta at the white house. we're going to check in with dana bash. she's getting reaction on capitol hill from the leadership there. we'll check in with christine romans. she's getting market reaction to what we just heard from the president. we'll also ask, where is the vice president joe biden in all of these ne...

Unless we start taking care of this crippling debt. people go, we shouldn't have these debt ceiling increases. we should have them every week. >> okay. >> until they actually cut spending. >> if that's the case, then what you need to see from the republican leadership is now, not six or seven weeks from now, now they ought to put forward a comprehensive, serious plan. >> what about harry reid's senate as well? >> exactly. >> they haven't put a budget out in years. what about the president of the united states? >> we don't want to be doing this on february 26th. >> let's do it now. >> that's my...

Painful to watch the president's speech. not just because we knew he was not telling americans the truth, with his suggestions of how well things were going and how well things will go if we gave him 4 more years of these repeated, failed policies. but you are right. there was a lack of enthusiasm, a lack of passion for this country. a lack of sincerity when it came to, for instance, his claims of supporting our troops. yet, many of us look back a number of months ago and remember a specific about the troops, for instance, where he was ready and willing to throw our troops under the bus, if he...

>> president obama, the debt limit is his problem. >> we pass legislation, giving the president the authority, the authority to request of us an increase in the debt ceiling. >> if you didn't quite get all that, you're not alone. >> but authorize him to request of us that we raise the debt ceiling for the amount that he says. >> which would, in fact, allow president obama the authority to raise the debt limit on his own. >> that strikes me as a cowardly posture. >> they all voted on a budget a few months ago that would require debt ceiling increases. >> they all look like a bunch of jackasses ...