PBS NewsHour: Jeffrey Brown- 'Watch President Obama's, Speaker Boehner's Full Debt-Ceiling Remarks'

Source:PBS NewsHour- President Barack H. Obama (Democrat, Illinois) talking about the debt ceiling agreement that was reached with Congress.

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"President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner addressed the nation Monday about the approaching debt-limit deadline and the political stalemate between top lawmakers over deficit-reduction proposals. Watch their full remarks plus analysis from Gwen Ifill and Political Editor David Chalian. Read more:PBS." 

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I believe the President did as well as someone even with his vast communication skills, could do with a national debt ceiling address. Especially with this material sounding very dry for today's reality TV audience and with Speaker Boehner countering him with a false statement where he said the House vote on "Cap Cut and Balance" being bipartisan last week. With only five Democrats voting for it and at least ten Republicans voting against it. There was actually more bipartisan opposition to "Cut Cap and Balance" than bipartisan support. 

I was a little worried Monday afternoon when I heard that President Obama came out in favor of Leader Reid's plan in the Senate, that cuts the debt and deficit through cuts only even though he includes 1T$ in defense cuts, coming from ending military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. According to a left-wing blog Think Progress, the House switchboard has been flooded with phone calls and emails, all about tonight's speeches. I'm guessing hopefully in favor of President Obama's speech. But we'll probably see within the next few days. 

I believe though that enough people did listen to President Obama's speech. And hopefully enough of them liked it enough, to tell enough Republican Representatives, that it's time for the House GOP Leadership to make a deal with the President and Senate. But there's a much different team in the House now, thats not in business to negotiate. 

I believe however that Speaker Boehner is an adult who wants to put the debt and deficit debate aside or at least getting something accomplished on it. And start to move on to other things which I'm sure the Speaker and House Leader Cantor have on their agenda. Even though the House GOP only controls one chamber of Congress and one institution in the entire Federal Government, they believe they hold all the cards because of the 2010 mid-term elections. 

But what the House GOP Leadership doesn't understand is that the voters didn't give them the Senate for a reason, because they didn't like enough of their Senate candidates to give them the majority there. Which left us with not only a divided government but a divided congress as well. 

What Leader Reid did in the Senate on Monday was to offer the House GOP a chance to say yes and move on but they still said no. I'm glad the President has left tax hikes on the wealthy on the table to go along with entitlement reform and budget cuts including in defense. And let's see within the next few days if he was able to move enough Americans to tell enough of their Reps thats its time to make a deal with the Senate and President and compromise so we can finally move on.