therefore assured its demise. so far the likelihood of a budget deal is anybody s guess as house budget chair paul ryan told politico, we re talking but it s premature to say anything now. if the parties fail to reach a deal. or more likely if house republicans reject a deal, the government will again shut down on january 15th. and less than a month later on february 7th, the economic bomb that is the debt ceiling is set to go off. i can t believe i have to say both of those things again. with all of this hanging over his head speaker john boehner channeled his newman, what me, worry? approach to congressional deadlines. speaking before the break boehner seems completely nonplussed he provides over the least productive congress since world war ii. listen, we have a very divided country and a very divided government. i m not going to sit here and
they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they leave with something so it s not a shutdown about nothing. he s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage showdowns to get policy concessions.
they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they leave with something so it s not a shutdown about nothing. obama s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage showdowns to get policy concessions. if they were not doing this they
oppose so they couldn t go to them for votes. the one thing i will say when they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they ollleave with somethi so it s not a shutdown about nothing. he s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage
billionaires. no, but they haven t done that. she had a chance to do this the last two years. you re on laughing gas now. you really think they always say the small businessmen is the image of america. walmart, the small business last year the republicans held up a small business bill for over nine months. why? because it has a made by obama sticker attached to it. i mean, 40, 80, 100 tea partiers who may not go along with anything that s even a reasonable eric cantor you say neither, i say neither. is it that bad on the republican side? they just want to screw the guy? it s been that bad and been worse. will it be that bad this time? i m not sure. locally, break boehner so he at least gives him a vote or brings to serious close to passage what he wants. how does he get boehner good start, go to cantor s district then boehner s districtened and so take it