for all this blubber we heard today coming out about what he s going to do, he had the opportunity in his grasp and he blink. president gets serious can t do simpson bowles without the republican michael. you know you can t unless the other side agrees to raise revenue. boehner couldn t sell it. it s not necessarily what you can do at times, it s what you re willing to do and he wasn t willing. thank you, guys. we have an interesting set of vocabulary words. i m a sycophant. the president speaks in blubber. a bad day for your crowd, michael steele, so i understand why you got a little excited. well done. great new book. we ll never stop talking about it. coming up, dirty, angry money.
low growth, then you end up as a percentage in percentage terms of having a bigger debt problem than you would if you imagine to stimulate growth. do you think the republicans if they were in power right now would really be cutting spending right now? would they really be doing that at a time they are barely getting out of this recession? i know what they d do. they d reform entitlements which are killing the long-term that s not going to help us get out of this recession. think about the long term. s&p said that we are lost our aaa rating because of the lack of leadership from people like president obama. we need he offered your guys a deal. they wouldn t take a 10 to 1 deal. john, you are out of date here. you know the president would you take this fight up? wasn t the president, he was ready to cut the worst deal for the liberal side of things and your guy said no deal. the tea party guys boehner couldn t deliver. what the republicans said it
deal, that is also driving this equation as they go back the white house and democrats very strategically want to continue to play up the divisions between cantor and boehner. they are not as large as the white house and democrats would allow people to believe or want them to believe. boehner never really got as far with the white house, according to my reporting, on this huge deal as was suggested. he looked at it, saw its implementation schedule wasn t workable, probably couldn t pass it in his conference, backed off on saturday. the reality is the president hasn t explained to the country what he would do on social security or medicare, either, and as he intimated but has never said plainly, what he was going to do and how much grief that would cause among democrats. my reporting is boehner couldn t have gotten the tax equation done and the president couldn t have gotten the social security and medicare thing done, either. so that was a big concept that i think fell apart of its
barnicle, john heilemann. what s so funny? yeah, what s so funny? i don t get it. he s back. we can t get him to leave. we have morning joe economic analyst steve rattner and in washington, pat buchanan. that s perfect for the story we have. a lot going on right now. friday, saturday, there was talk of the grand bargain, $4 trillion. boehner backed off, said it s going to look like $2 trillion. let s go around the table. what happened steve rattner? boehner couldn t sell tax cuts to his caucus. i must say i m sorry tax increases, thank you. it s still early. a year ago i m not sure i would have thought of boehner as a
boehner say we have to go with the biden cut is right. boehner can put together his entire caucus, the majority, bring along a few democrats, pass the biden cuts, send them to the senate and work with manchin and pass their budget cuts and send it to barack obama s white house and say take it or leave it, mr. president. he will take it. the republicans are in the seat. if they would only realize it, get the taxes off the table, pass an extension of the debt ceiling. if it s only for ten months fine. get cuts. the market, look, the ten year bond is getting 3%. they are not panicking. they know a deal can be made. if they go the biden way, you are talking act the mess of discretionary spending, the tax code. even the wall street journal