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BY CHRISTINA HARTMAN
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This Sunday -- a jamboree of Johns weigh in on the debt.
Senator John McCain on CNN’s State of the Union.
MCCAIN: “The American people. They don’t want compromise. They want us to balance the budget.”
Senator John Cornyn on Fox News Sunday.
CORNYN: “We ought to sit down and work together. And it shouldn't take the form of press conferences like the president gave last week.”
And Ohio Governor John Kasich on CBS.
KASICH: “They will raise the debt ceiling. The question is do they get a big deal or a little deal?”
Also on the Sunday talk agenda -- Afghanistan -- and Republican lawmakers were out full force on the shows to voice concern over the president’s accelerated troop withdrawal plan.
GRAHAM: “No military leader recommended the decision the president chose. So, it is now the Obama-Biden strategy. And my fear is that people are going to look this as a withdrawal, not a transition. We're hearing that all over the country uncertainty creeping back in...”
MCCAIN: “I hope that it’ll work. Most people would tell you it’s an unnecessary risk. ... But most important we are told the Afghans are now wondering if we’re leaving. And that can undermine the whole effort and sacrifice that’s been made since this important surge began.”
Still -- McCain -- made room for civility in his criticism of the president.
“I question whether this was the right decision but I can’t question the president’s patriotism.”
Also on Sunday -- CBS “Face the Nation” hosts three governors to answer the question -- “What’s wrong with Washington?” Ohio Republican Governor John Kasich - whose popularity within his own state has taken a hit -- weighs in.
“At the end of the day you look yourself in the mirror and you say to yourself did I do what was right for families and for children? If I paid a political price, so what? I mean, there's too much posturing. There’s too much thinking about your party, yourself.”
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