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Shape. >> fellow texan ron paul, who's railed against the debt since long before his 2008 white house bid, has promised a vote against the debt hike, arguing the boehner plan doesn't truly cut spending. >> both sides are failing to understand that the country is bankrupt, there will be a default. the only debate that is going on is how you default. i vote for, you know, stopping the spending. >> former minnesota governor tim pawlenty says he won't support the boehner plan, but speaks the speaker's efforts. mitt romney applauds boehner's leadership, but refuses to take a position on the boehner...

Deal. all the motivation to come up with a plan and fast. the problem differing ideals. >> before we ask seniors to pay more for medicare. we should ask the wealthiest to give up tax breaks we can't afford. >> small business owners are pleading to the government to stop reckless pend balance the budget and get out of the way. >> wendall it sounds like a battle brewing over a short-term debt ceiling increase. >> that may be the case. the problem is the debt ceiling long enough to last through 20 12. boehner is cutting the debt ceiling more than the debt increase. the meeting in the white house....

Let your member of congress know. if you believe we can solve this problem through compromise, send that message. >> the white house communications director dan pfeiffer tweeted that the servers on capitol hill crashed after the president made that plea for people to get in touch with their congressional representatives. after the president's speech, house speaker john boehner spoke for roughly five minutes and he came out against president obama's proposals. >> president obama came to congress in january and requested business as usual. he had another routine increase in the national debt, bu...

I was amazed at;h$ow different washington, d.c. operated than every other business in america, where most american businesses make the hard choices of paying their bills and living within their means, in washington, more spending and more debt is business as usual. i've got news for washington, those days are over. president obama came to congress in january and requested business as usual. he had another routine increase in the national debt, but we in the house said not so fast. he was a president asking for the largest debt increase in history on the heels of the largest spending increase ...

Past the end of his term. >> so mcconnell's plan would allow republicans to vote against the debt increase, but it would allow the president to increase the debt. the downside for the righties? cuts to the big three would be off the table. that's been their mission all along. the tea party jumped all over mcconnell, right wing blogger eric rashgson said mitch mcconnell is making a historic capitulation. consider sending mcconnell a weasel. john boehner is on board with the senate leader mcconnell. he ran over to fox news and did major cya. >> i think everybody believe there is needs to be a ba...