Scott Pelley interview with Obama on debt deadlock

[alp227]

Run time: 05:16 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DG6Mm7RgwS0   Posted on YouTube: July 12, 2011 By YouTube Member: CBSNewsOnline Views on YouTube: 135   Posted on DU: July 13, 2011 By DU Member: alp227 Views on DU: 1607

 
CBS summary: "President Obama speaks with CBS News anchor Scott Pelley about stalled negotiations with Congress to raise the debt ceiling and what he feels is holding up progress."

This was the top story on today's CBS Evening News.

Highlights:
- 2:00, criticizes McConnell for statement about no real debt deal until Obama leaves office, also speaks about stabilizing social security and medicare, wanting republicans to vote for revenue increasers so that the debt deal isn't on the backs of the middle class and poor
- 3:10, while Democrats will be able to compromise, neither party will have 100% of anything, both parties need to sacrifice their "sacred cows", specifically cites oil companies as example

Also, , where Obama criticized John Boehner.

[RBInMaine]

1. If still no deal within a week from deadline, do a NATIONAL ADDRESS and lay it out CLEARLY:

Either we do a deficit deal in a BALANCED way that asks the rich to pay a little more, or we allow the nation to default because the PUKES would rather allow that to happen than ask a corporate jet owner to pay just a little more in taxes in the long term. Simple as that.

Then CHECKMATE. The PUKES are in a total fucking bind.