odds at 40% of a government shut down. does that sound right to you in. i can t figure out the democrats are determined not to help boeh ner this time. if boeh ner. i don t know how he if he can find 218 votes for something that doesn t touch the health care plan, then good luck. you know, this latest strategy of his, which i think is the most viable. i just don t know if the ted cruz caucus in the house will accept it, which is stop pushing for a defunding, try for the one-year delay on the individual mandate. you know, make that. that has at least a rational chance of giving, of getting, say, red state democrats in the senate potentially to sign on saying, you know, push for a one-84 delay. but i don t know if he can sell that to those 50 to 80 members that could by a gainst him and cost him his 218.
republicans have brought the democrats into these fiscal conversations. you know what, last year, we were able to make tax cuts permanent for 99% of the population this time around, we are looking at the government staying at a lower level funding. we don t continue to break the bank, we try to live within our fiscal means and you know what, i don t think there will be a government shutdown, i think we will be able to resolve these issues. it s aulgss darkest before the dawn. we haven t had a shutdown before 95- 96. i think it will work out. here s the problem, house republicans want to raise the debt ceiling. obama refuses to raise the bar on authority. alexis, how do you prevent a government shutdown, then? i think what obama needs to do is let the republican drama play out because at the end of the day what speaker boeh ner is showing not only is he increasingly, i think that has
an amazing moment. next day report in the new york times he is talking to democrats, because he is so fed up with his own cauticus, that goes to the people he can potentially reason with. so that may be the next step is boeh ner trying to make something happen. what is wrong with telegraphing, i would agree, what it does is it puts everybody on notice that, hey, it s time to get behind your successor or the successor should be lined up. the assumption is eric cantor would be the next speaker. is that a valid assumption to make? you seen the power plays really since the tea party came to washington. that s what a lot of this dynamic is all about. really, boeh ner has shown, any time he punished these tea parties, these guys got thrown off committees that were prominent. they actually fund raised off that and made that a badge of
for that. his goals are not the tea party s goals. on some level, it would make sense if he is not speaker. the tea party members are wary of boehner, it s like paul ryan or someone they think is a try conservative that was a speaker, the president could talk to that person and think they represent the congressional percent boeh ner has to check to defund obamacare. the republicans said, no, not good enough for us. boeh ner, tip o neil, o neil was leading the democrats. boeh ner does not lead. he is led by them. why not telegraphing whether you are going in being honest allows people to understand where you are coming from. from the president s perspective, he d much rather deal with john boehner or conservatives for that reason. they fell they can have a discussion even though everything blew up when they were trying to come to this
we don t need boeh ener to spell it out for us. i would agree with you, i think washington does not have a big spending problem. i think the challenge is we are having the same debate, the same conversation about debt limit, continued resolutions and shutdown when the loadership is not putting forward any new ideas. what they want to do is defund health care, education, jobs. we need to be thinking of how to grow our economy and stop taking away the very things that are helping our middle class and our senior citizens move forward during this time. ron, would you agree that washington doesn t have a spending problem? how can you do that? i almost fell out of my seat when i heard that. we worry about our debt ceiling. gee, i see where you have a spending problem. that s why the republicans have pushed washington towards dealing with these fiscal issues. that s why they are in bed with the white house. for the past several years, the