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,
in a civil war in the house. boehner runs for re-election on third of january, too. stay right there. hold the thought. lightning round up next. friday night. we ll be right back. stay with us.
neutral. so, of course, it can be done. break through the president is talking about is to break the republicans. to create a civil war in the house. by insisting that they go back on the idea of not raising rates, which is economically a correct idea. that encouraging economic growth if you lower rates or at least you keep them the same. this is all about politics, nothing about economics. bret: this is a different president obama than in the debt ceiling negotiations. last time around. they are clearly signals that they have the stronger hand. and they are not it doesn t even seem like they are getting to a room. yeah. bret: to negotiate. they feel like they have the stronger hand because he won re-election an every pole shows most americans are fine with the tax rates going up on people making more than $250,000. so they feel like they have that on their side. what they also have on their side the president you can t forget did give in on this