The President knows that. When it comes to the White House, the President would then have the option of signing it or not signing it. If the President did not sign that, then he would, of course, be the person that would put the nation in peril of some, of some insolvency or whatever would be the consequences. You just heard Sen. Daschle call your position irresponsible and extreme and said the Republicans were playing politics with the economy. I'm willing to bet that the American people are as tired of listening to Sen. Daschle's political rhetoric as I am, and I'm not much concerned about it.
People are just bored with listening to 'em.
When you tried to do this with the government shutdown, he did respond and, in fact, the polls suggest the public blamed the Republicans. Well, you know, the President has got to make up his mind. Unless he were to think that signing a debt ceiling increase that allows some modicum of the success of the agenda that this Congress was trying to put forward is a more dire thing for him to have to live with than putting the country in insolvency, he'd have to weigh that. The President, again, he has to come to terms with some responsibility for his actions. And let's turn finally to prospects for a balanced budget deal.