The Republicans will say, 'We need to cut more spending to have credible deficit reduction.' The Democrats will say, 'Look, they downgraded our credit rating in part because the Republicans refused to raise some revenues.'
Reid highlights the partisan divide over spending cuts and revenue increases in response to the credit downgrade.
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McConnell is facing reality, and it bothers him a lot. The filibuster is on its way out. It’s not a question if. It’s a question of when it goes away.
You cannot have a democracy that record 60 percent of the vote on everything. And that’s what the Republicans have done. They have made a mockery of what the Senate should be.
He has no regrets. He says he had to do it to save Obama’s presidency because of what the Republicans were doing to obstruct the president’s confirmation of judges and other legislative things.
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