failed. i do not think this has helped john boehner s speakership. that quote right there certainly didn t help the president s stance either. if you tax all the people that make more than 250 k that is the solution. the cbo didn t help him either with those numbers because $250,000 tax the cbo has said wouldn t solve the problem. this barely makes a dent. you have to cut spending obviously and that s what we think that howard dean was alluding to. meanwhile, charles krauthammer had an interesting theory on special report last night in which he also tried to figure out what the president s ultimate strategy is and what game the president is playing. i had not heard this theory before. let s listen to charles krauthammer. if he was only interested in the budget, in the fiscally balancing it, he would have said i don t care how you get the money. can you can do it through exceptions and deductions. he insisted on rates not because it was economic issue because it was you woul
and speaker not deposed is extremely weakened. this sets him up for the two years, the four years in which he can have his way over republicans who are right now in a civil war in the house. i mean, if that s the plan that it s working, because as charles mentioned chuckle head you have members of the g.o.p. calling other members of the g.o.p. chuckle heads, the 40 or 50 tea party members for not doing anything so there is a civil war. the idea that the president was trying to foment civil war in the g.o.p. maybe that s what happened. i don t know if he was a diabolical genius and know that he is creating that. the president knew if he does nothing that it s on them, the house controls the purse strings and if he does nothing, these things are going to go into place anyway. i have always disagreed with the notion that the country will blame republicans. they might in the short-term in the six to eight months to follow but your legacy will be one of two recessions in both terms,
people are questioning john boehner s leadership saying if he can t rally his own people perhaps he doesn t have the powers of persuasion. others say it is the tea partiers that wouldn t go along with the compromise. that s what congressman from louisiana said last night. i don t know what the number is. 40 out of the 240. that is not a repudiation . that is the 40 chuckle heads starting with hr1 screwed this place up . he s done everything in his power to make nice to them and bring them along and make them feel included and it hasn t mattered. i don t fault him. he s done his best. thank you for your help. he said chuckle heads .
ohio said it s not boehner s fault. it s actually the tea party members fault. let s listen. i don t know what the number is, but say the number is 40 out of 240. that s not a repute on his leadership. that s chuckle heads that all year starting with hr 1, the entire congress screwed this place up and so and he has done everything in his power to make nice to them, to bring them along, to make them feel included. but it hasn t mattered and so i don t fault him. he s done his best. brian: just to know what happened yesterday. essentially john boehner and the president have spoken maybe face-to-face about four times in the last dates and a lot of people thought they were close to an agreement. but it was hitting an impasse. they said since we have 11 days, let s come up with plan b. the president said let s keep tax the same for everyone, up until a million dollars, then put the tax rate higher and do some spending cuts in between. and the president said, i looked at your plan b a
knows. you may not have a direct line to the almighty, but what the heck is next on these negotiations? and could boehner really lose his speakership as you may have implied? reporter: well, professor, you and i watch a lot of basketball together, and it s not exactly a mike brown with the lakers situation quite yet. john boehner has a little bit of leeway, shall we say, mainly because eric cantor was all in on this deal as well and the vast majority of the house gop conference supported it. he just couldn t get those 40 chuckle heads, quote, unquote, as his colleague steve la for ret calls them. the way going forward for john boehner is he s taken himself out of the negotiations and the big loss for him last night was that he s essentially allowing harry reid and president obama to draw up a fiscal cliff bill they would like to see. now, there s talks from the senate side that that bill could possibly look like the $250,000 or below tax cuts, an extension of unemployment benefits or