it seems like this is game played by two sides. sure there a whipping operation now that cantor is on the team with boehner. isn t there 200 tea party organization nationwide? making phone calls to the cloak room. trying to get their guys to stay off the vote. reporter: well, you remember what this game is. mcconnell and want to have the three or four days of showdown rather than hand it over to the white house and harry reid. if they can t get the boehner deal out of the house, then there goes that leverage and you will see mcconnell move quickly to try to work something out with reid. you do wonder this, chris, one of the things that democrats may have done and maybe now claim they do it on purpose probably wasn t the intent at the time which is when we came out and said, this thing is dead in the senate, there is no chance boehner will live in the senate. that sends a message to some of guys sitting on the fence saying
correct and back and fill most of the rest of his first term. i think what you ll see from now to november 2012 is a fight over message, over politics, and i think people on the left want to see obama get out there and really fight for their values and principles. i think they realize that the way the congress is situated congress is situated, there won t be grand bills passed. there may not even be small bills passed. they want to see obama defending progressive values. in that regard this speech may be a little disappointing. do you think he will make john boehner cry by staying nice things about him? i m serious. i m not machiavellian. i think he mentioned the american dream and kids there is a 50% chance boehner will be weeping. what do you think, gene? you have too much of a heart to go into this. this is cruel and unusual. i have a heart.
they do it on purpose probably wasn t the intent at the time which is when we came out and said, this thing is dead in the senate, there is no chance boehner will live in the senate. that sends a message to some of guys sitting on the fence saying why should i walk the plank on this for something that s going to die anyway. i can get punished in a primary forit, forget it. we know about the ones waivering, they are trying to flip. what about the ones they did flip, going wait a minute, i thought they had it. this thing could be collapsing right in front of their eyes. suppose snooez does collapse. you and i were talking off camera a moment ago. when we watch is the machine that s going to come in from god and save this whole thing. could it be that that s the old plan of mitch mcconnell, tough partisan republic who says we have to get this crap over, if
of the things that democrats may have done and maybe now claim they do it on purpose probably wasn t the intent at the time which is when we came out and said, this thing is dead in the senate, there is no chance boehner will live in the senate. that sends a message to some of guys sitting on the fence saying why should i walk the plank on this for something that s going to die anyway. i can get punished in a primary forit, forget it. we know about the ones waivering, they are trying to flip. what about the ones they did flip, going wait a minute, i thought they had it. this thing could be collapsing right in front of their eyes. suppose snooez does collapse. you and i were talking off camera a moment ago. when we watch is the machine that s going to come in from god and save this whole thing. could it be that that s the old plan of mitch mcconnell, tough partisan republic who says we
have a figurely impact as well chris? it seems like this is game played by two sides. sure there a whipping operation now that cantor is on the team with boehner. isn t there 200 tea party organization nationwide? making phone calls to the cloak room. trying to get their guys to stay off the vote. reporter: well, you remember what this game is. mcconnell and want to have the three or four days of showdown rather than hand it over to the white house and harry reid. if they can t get the boehner deal out of the house, then there goes that leverage and you will see mcconnell move quickly to try to work something out with reid. you do wonder this, chris, one of the things that democrats may have done and maybe now claim they do it on purpose probably wasn t the intent at the time which is when we came out and said, this thing is dead in the senate, there is no chance