Mike Pence: “Well, negotiations over the Nation's debt ceiling have reached an impasse. After more than 2 years in office, trillions…”

“Well, negotiations over the Nation's debt ceiling have reached an impasse. After more than 2 years in office, trillions of dollars in borrowing and spending and bailouts and takeovers, the President now says the failure to reach an agreement is because of Republicans in the Congress, Republicans who were in the minority in the last Congress in fact; the President says because Republicans in Washington haven't ``fully realized that the philosophy of politics does not work in governing.'' He is telling us to eat our peas. Okay. Well, the President basically is saying that Congress owns the problem. But that's not what he said 5 years ago. Explaining his opposition to raising the debt ceiling, then-Senator Barack Obama said, ``The fact we are here today raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure.'' He said that doing so weakens us domestically. He said, ``Leadership means the buck stops here. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.'' He said Americans deserve better. Well, I say Senator Obama, you were right. When the U.S. Government can't pay its bills, it's not only a debt problem, but it is a failure of leadership at the Presidential level, just as you said. The truth is it's the President's problem.…”