support. they will not. they will become a fringe party in the wilderness. but they re sticking to their principles, and they re trying to drive out the rhinos. i also have to point out they suspended the senate rules to do this, chris. it s really quite amazing. there was no transparency. there is usually the verbal aye and nay. they were using, they were putting their hand up. i think somebody was wiggling their nose as a secret symbol that they supported the bill. it s something we have never seen before. and it s really i mean, it s terrible for our democracy on every single level. ronald reagan, my fellow progressive, i now put this question to you. is the lesson of the 1950s to the republican party, they should have gone with joe mccarthy, not eisenhower? is that the message, oh, we blew it. we went with eisenhower, the hero that won the war. why didn t we go with joe mccarthy. this is the right way to go. it looks like cruz is mccarthy incarnate. your thoughts. ted cruz ap
money for all the republican candidates all around the country to win chips for himself. he can t do that now. i m sorry, howard, you are a pro beyond my imagination sometimes. but i think this hyping about the head of the republican governors association, name one other one in history? has there ever being any the head of it s a borg position. your thoughts. it might be a boring position. but to howard s point, yes. it s an excuse to travel. this was supposed to be governor christie s two months, his reelection, his inauguration, his state of the state, super bowl, and his heavy travel schedule with rga. but what he is doing, chris, he is taking a play out of bill clinton s book from when he got in to the whole impeachment-monica lewinsky thing. keep doing the job the people elect you d to do. okay there is a problem with that. the problem with that parallel is that bill clinton basically escaped conviction in the u.s. senate politically, because politically they didn t th
torpedo the republican party so it will blow up completely in somebody as wildly crazy as him would get the nomination for president. is that what he is up to? yes, i think that is what he is up, to chris. but, you know, he wanted to get these people on record saying in some fashion that they support raising the debt limit. and i think this is a totally pathetic charade. i just have to say, i can t give mitch mcconnell a lot of credit for bravery because look at what these guys are doing, and look at what we as americans have let them do. they want to pretend that they don t want to lift the debt ceiling, which, again, means paying our bills, paying bills we already racked up, paying for a dinner we already consumed. they want to pretend that they re against that. but god forbid that happened. that would put us in default. they don t want that either. so they want democrats to do, as you say, the dirty work of paying their bills and they can be blameless and they can also go on lying
came clean to a new round of inappropriate conversation and sexting he had conducted after his resignation. let me go back to eliza. his statement today, that first sort of finger waving away, like this timeline business, as if it wasn t important to reporters. every one of our producers to ep on down, everybody said the key question the reporters had to ask in new york tonight was did he do this after all the public embarrassment? and if he did, that would suggest a far graver problem than a guy caught doing something wrong if a guy goes back and does it all over again. and now we find that doing it all over again all the way up until this summer at least of 2012. but i m guessing we re going to hear it s more recent than that. right, exactly, chris. it s just remarkable. the prevailing question all day was when did this happen. you know, he certainly didn t deny that it happened after his resignation from congress. and then he basically, you know,
so i think it s really a combination of the two there. rachel, i thought from the beginning that his run for mayor, and i was underestimating its potential success up until today, because i thought he wanted to bathe in public attention so that when he came out of the race maybe in second, a good strong second or even a strong third, he would be back in the political game. people would put behind him all the mess of his exposure because of the sexting, and he would be back in business again, even if he came in second or third. just that public exposure. now i begin to think it s all part of his exhibitionism, the running for office, the constant pr about himself, the naked pictures and sending them out to total strangers. i m not a psychiatrist. but i think we need one here to understand this character. your thoughts. you made a great point earlier, chris. you said we have to fight for every nugget. and it does have a little bit of a feel of being almost a game here. he made a poin