Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV): We Want President Obama “To Step Forward”, “Take The Leadership” On Super Committee
CBS’s Bob
Schieffer:
“Is President Obama doing enough on this?
Sen. Joe Manchin
(D-WV):
“Well, if it doesn't work, then no one’s done enough on it. And he's the
leader of this great country, and we want him to step forward.”
Schieffer: “What do you want him to
do?”
Manchin: “Let me just tell you in
West Virginia what I did when I was governor. We had financial challenges but
you had to step forward and you have to put your politics aside. It can't be
about are you a good democrat or good republican? We needed to be a good West
Virginiaian, and now we need to be a good American. It’s about our country. So,
we can't worry about the next election. It should be the next generation.
Everything we do here is worried about the next election. How it's going to
affect them, who would help, who can they blame? This is not the blame game, and
you never fixed a thing by blaming people. So, yes we want to see the
president take the leadership. We want to see members of congress in
leadership take that position that they’ve been asked to do.” (CBS’
“Face The
Nation,”
11/20/11)
Source www.gop.com
