because the conservative identify logs pulled mitt romney so far to the right in the primaries he could never find his way back to the middle in november. on the other side is the right wing, jim demint, rick santorum, the talk radio conservative media industrial complex. they make the same argument identify logs always make when they lose. the problem to them was our guy wasn t ideological enough. the conflict is playing out in technicolor with demint bowling the united states senate to become the ceo of the conservative movement. and firing a warning shot at bay boehner in the process. joining me are michael steele and joy reid, managing editor of thegrio.com. she s also one of us. thank you gentleman and lady. i want you to look at something. this is what happens when you g near what i call the misery index, the risch limbaugh show. yesterday jim demint, still the united states senator from south carolina, and the outgoing heritage president ed fuelner went on rush and yuck yucked
president obama on a very touchy political topic, and the republicans deathly afraid they d get drawn into defending big oil nevertheless pulled bay boehner back from the brink and they issued the statement that you read just a few minutes ago. i ve got to tell you, howard. i thought boehner s initial comment was actually brilliant politically. it would be a genius move for republicans to go into the tax code, go after corporate tax subsidies in the tax code. if they did that, the democrats would just be lost in terms of power. i agree. but of course he got pulled back. last night, i had grover norquist on the show, in this spot specifically to highlight exactly what republicans are up against when they go into this sort of thing. and we actually talked about a tax subsidy, the ethanol tax subsidy that grover norquist thinks is terrible, i think is terrible. but he explained why he would not allow republicans to just repeal it. let s listen to what grover