that was senator george voinovich of ohio. interestingly enough, what do governors have to do? they have to make real decisions because their decisions have senator voinovich was absolutely correct. that pledge is inconsistent with the oath of office that they took when they became members of the united states senate. that is what george voinovich concluded and i agree with him. and it is becauseei take my own oath so seriously that i take our common danger so seriously so i want to end with this image. there two clocks. one of them is counting down the time to our debt crisis. the other can wake us up to see are such a wage and as it is, not as we wanted to be or as our ideologies saa it should be. and the kind of country that our children, that my three daughters and my three grandchildren, and my own brother will inherit, and what they will live in -- growing or stagnant, on the rise or in decline -- depends on which clock goes off first. we can keep making easy choices and hoping that the ccisis clock just keeps ticking. but sooner or later, if that is what we choose, there

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