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. >> alice rivlin was the director of the budget offices at both congress and the white house.he served on two budget commissions. she says last year there were unofficial focus groups in 26 cities that were asked to work on the debt problem. when they heard the facts, rivlin says, each of them was able to work out a plan. not all of them came up with the same solution, but no one failed to reach agreement on something. it seems to be quite different for congress and the white house, raising the question whether the federal government can compromise and act on any issue as difficult as this one, with so much moral passion and partisan ideology. >>> more on this with our managing editor, kim lawton. kim? >> bob, the religious community continues to be very involved in this debate, bringing some of that moral passion and they are lobbying on both sides, all sides of this issue. this week, we had 24 religious and charitable organizations writing a letter to the administration and congressional leaders saying in all of your debt ceiling discussions, don't forgot about the poor, the

i interviewed alice rivlin who is the former vice chair of the fed and comes from a democratic backgroundd from the bill clinton white house and worked in partisan and bipartisan offices, and she says it is a self-inflicted wound. there is no reason for the sovereign debt of the united states to be at risk in this way. certainly the treasury secretary and the fed chair have been making these arguments, and you can argue that one comes from a political context being partç the cabinet. they do not believe the credible warnings they have been getting and the other side of the fence is that everyone sees political advantage, democrats and republicans, and they are looking at the 2012 race and positioning now for how they want the president or the republican candidates to be positioned. >> andrea, luke was just saying that he thinks of these two proposals, he thinks that the last one standing could well be john boehner's. >> i think that is really smart. >> do you think that? >> yes, i do. i think that the way that boehner is positioning this, he could get something past the house that wherea

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george will, arianna huffington, founder of "the huffington post," former clinton budget director alice rivlin also a member of one of the many y commissions studying solutions to the debt crisis, and charlie gasparino, senior correspondent for fox business network. good morning, all. you heard what the secretary of the treasury said. george, is the country going to go off the cliff or will there be a deal do you think? >> we were supposed to go off the cliff originally in may. that was the drop dead date then it was moved to august 2nd, a week there this coming tuesday. now suddenly we wake up this morning and mr. geithner, whose credibilility is zero with republicans and this is one reason why, says no, no, 4:00 this afternoon, the asian markets open, and that's the drop dead date. the president this week in his tantrum compress conference said republicans won't say any to anything. they said yes to the ryan budget, the democratic senate said no. they said yes to cap and balance. the only plan put on paper, the president has put not one on paper, the only one debated in the house, the only o

that every single group whether it's simpson bowles, whether its alice rivlin and pete dom inwill see, whoever it is, semi serious that if there has to be budget cuts to deal with the deficit problem and the debt, that there has to be revenue increases. it's become a dog ma with republicans now that anybody who votes for tax increase is no longer a member of the club or the party and is driven out of the tent. ronald reagan raised taxes six times. the amount of money we're talking about raising taxes which would be $400 billion over ten years, is less than 1% of the money to be collected in the next ten years. less than 1%. and if you look at it and this was presented in a way yesterday, i thought was a brilliant document. if you look at it in terms, jim from 2001, the last time that the budget was balanced, fiscal year, 128 billion surplus, and we look at what we're spending on discretionary spending, that's one that isn't mandated, it is exactly the same. inflation or dollars. an if population growth as it was then. defense spending has gone up 80%. tax revenues are down 18%. we are

. >> reporter: alice rivlin says president obama is also to blame for walking away from the recommendations. >> i think everybody missed an opportunity, both the president and the leadership of the congress. >> reporter: in part, that's because the leaders aren't really leading. one side of congress is answering to conservatives who won't give on taxes. the other won't touch entitlements. it's no wonder they're getting nervous. is it getting scary up here? >> it's pot to the point of being scary yet, but it is heading in that direction. >> reporter: adding to the polarization in congress is the fact that you have a steady stream of centrists leaving the capitol in recent years. the latest democrat mike ross, he's one of the last blue dog fiscally conservative democrats to announce that he is retiring. and republicans up on capitol hill are predicting confidently 45e won't be the last. >> and the tea party has a rally set for this afternoon. what's the message there? >> reporter: well, it's going to be interesting to watch because as you know, many of these house lawmakers coming out of the