and the humiliation that s come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone s been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it s reaching people who don t always follow the swearing in or the speaker s race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what s going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is it happening at the finish line of a win for the gop in the midterms? and why is the big fight in washington within one party, not between one of the typically warring factions between parties? there are many factors but three reasons loom large. first a crop of republicans who are more focused on hijacking than running. second, this trump internet industrial complex that puts the content, the tr
display, because fox elite have been blasting the gop defectors. the tea party an anti-obama wave that morphed into an anti-boehner, anti-leadership wave. that tea party group, which was the baseline for what we re seeing expose this week, they made boehner s life hell and had more demands that were about the show than any reality or any governoring and definitely any vote counting. boehner was conservative, anti-obama, but he would publicly complain he was forced to negotiate in fantasy land as he hit those republican detractors. frankly i just think that they ve lost all credibility. they had no cred with him, but their content was rile up part of the base, and their chaos was thrilling to some. it through sand in the government until it could fail.
first things first. i think speaker boehner did well through this. i m a fan of this and i think he will be re-elected as speak. they are taking out frustrations on him when he manages a difficult process. bret: kirsten? it s not pro or anti-boehner situation as much as why was it get to this point? why couldn t they have why so much pork in it. why so much spending that is meant to go and relieve the problem. who controls this it started in the senate. you be i m saying this is the disflux of washington dysfunction of washington. they didn t know this was coming out of the senate? can people talk to each other? corruption of the word. idea of emergency. this will happen quickly and because earmarks are harder to