mcconnell and joe manchin and nelson in the center and put together a center right deal and roll it across. it will go through. boehner will be the guy on the cover of every magazine, if he can rise to the occasion. they will kill him in the senate. work with mccon el and get every republican vote. if the senate kills it, it will be senate democrats. who will have shut down the government, joe? hmmm. i m less focused on that than getting the big deal. i understand the politics of it. joe, the big deal is dead. pat, big deals are never dead. no. pat. boehner can t get it through the house. he needs a moment? does he mean the moment if john boehner tries to push
core of our message if we got elected. what if they decide to go with boehner? have they not set themselves up with the pat buchanan s in 2012 and lose their seats later? maybe. what we learned over the last weekend is that john boehner didn t want to be speaker. what he learned is he is not really the speaker of the house. eric cantor is the speaker of the house. is it important for these candidates who made pledges to keep their word? they made lots of pledges. they say they are in favor of fixing the long term fiscal picture and get the deficit down. one way to do that is taking an approach back on the table. i want to look at the policy and who has behaved in a way according to a lot of people at
lowered rates and get rid of the exemptions. it s good politics. here is where boehner s opportunity lies. he can come back to the caucus and take the league. president obama expects out to lunch to get $2 trillion in taxes. boehner can craft this thing to go across to the senate. the senate won t take it. fine. let the liberal democrats veto the thing and the house can pass another and send it over with less cuts until they finally take it. the republicans got past the debt ceiling. they have to have major cuts on there. if they can t get them out of the senate and they veto it and stop it, who shut the government down. if we get to something so we don t have to go beyond the deadline. is it good for the economy because we can move on.
boehner walked away from the table. you are not going to get revenue increases. boeper is not going to commitment suicide trying to do it. he will pass the debt ceiling and significant spending cuts to which the house agrees. what steve says is, well, if there are cuts like that, the senate won t accept it. if he does, the senate will veto it. i don t believe that. they are not going to put the government at fault simply because the house will not give them the tax cuts they want. this is where we are at. if boehner will stay strong and work the the public conservatives and conservative democrats, they have $1 trillion to $2 trillion, it is up to the
the right, had he started this in may, we wouldn t be facing this. for peggy, would be how do you all get out of this thing without looking like you all killed it. sorry, pat first. very simple. senator schumer, john boehner on the 21st, 22nd of july, they pass an extension of the debt ceiling with say $1 trillion in cuts. are you telling me they would veto it or block it or let the government go into default rather than deal with that? i don t think so. let me say two things first, pat. right now, you have 40 republican congressmen who won t vote to increase any debt ceiling. right. you are going to need