limits of political powers or be content in using them as a threat. how far should he go? well, i think you ve already seen a president who has used his executive powers when necessary, when appointments were sitting out there and no action was being taken. you see him now talking about what he s going to do with minimum wage for federal contracts. he is focused on a number of things that people don t even know about, like when my drug shortage bill, we were having a huge problem with kids not getting cancer drugs, the president had to do something by executive order because it took awhile to get a bill through congress. he has used that power and will use that power, but there is something else going on here. after the shutdown, after the american people had just about had it, i think you saw something of a seat change in congress. you saw patty murray and congressman ryan negotiating us out of another shutdown. you saw barbara mikulski working with her counterpart to get an actual
nothing, obstructionism, filibusters, time and time again. now we re starting so see some things move. hopefully we ll get a farm bill. hey, one step at a time. get the budget done, and i think it starts to give people confidence back in their government. senator wicker as you well know, there s a civil war brewing inside the republican party, almost, almost as big as the last civil war. oh, come on. that s not true. i m exaggerating a little bit myself. this is wishful thinksiing o your part. it s the season of wishes. let me give santa everything i have. so i mean, mitch mcconnell has an opponent on the far right. lindsey graham has an o.ant. and of course your colleague and someone i also consider a friend, thad cochran has an opponent on the far right. so you have all these republicans now pointing at senators, calling them rinos.
that is right. with the budget done, republicans can get back to their favorite past time attacking the affordable care act. and as you can imagine, today s latest grilling of hhs secretary, kathleen sebelius, was a chorus of holiday harmony. delays. it seems like every holiday brings another delay. so what should we expect for christmas/& new year. i m going to try to be nice and polite and kind. all right, we got it. we re going to agree to disagree. it s like talking to the republic of korea or something. that was him trying to be nice. all right. we are going to get to a very strong panel right here in new york. we have tamara drought, vice president of dmos and political strategist angela rye, and dana mill bank, political columnist for washington post. tamara, i want to start with you. everyone looks at this deal and just about everyone says it s not good enough. no matter where you stand.
people and it will essentially be a high risk pool which is very expensive to cover and the prices go higher and higher and the only fix become more mandates. some people have said the discussion over obama care isn t about health care it s about freedom of choice versus coercion. the president is coercing you into four plans and he s telling you exactly what you have to buy. this is extraordinary in our country. and that s why the whole supreme court case was something that was incredibly important, and i m still incredibly disappointed at the outcome. senator, we have some people to tweet in questions to you. one of them, writes this, do you think that the two sides can get a budget done, or are we doomed to a continuing resolution for the rest of president obama s term in office? doomed. period? well, the reason is, is that, for example, the budget in the house doesn t raise taxes. the republican budget doesn t raise taxes. the senate budget raises taxes a trillion dollars.
about defun organize delaying obamacare. they want extensions without negotiations. a clean debt ceiling, that s the path forward. no need for conversations. we have spoken loudly and clearly, and we have the support of the president of the united states. and that s pretty good. you heard leader reid make reference to the cr, the continuing resolution, to keep the government running after october 1st. is on the senate floor right now to try to get a deal to vote on that tonight, because, of course, the house will still need to take action. plenty of uncertainty with serious deadlines on capitol hill. neil: mike, i got a sense some of these guys, at least a partial shutdown its looking very likely, time is awaistingag and little time to get a deal on the budget done, leaving aside the deadline on the debt ceiling