political kryptonite mike barnicle, we talk about it every day. marc thiessen s column is dead on yeah, people may not be excited about joe biden. they may want somebody new maybe they want somebody who is not 80 plus. but they re going to take him when they go into the booth if the choice is between joe biden and donald trump this poll puts it in the most again, what we say every day, this poll puts into a data point. joe, you re right on the basis of what we re looking at, donald trump versus joe biden, joe biden is going to beat donald trump. he is going to beat him like a drum, actually, because of one guy much younger than both men, much younger than trump, much younger than joe biden a guy by the name of jack smith, the special counsel. he is i don t know how a guy goes to the country running for president of the united states who almost certainly will be
considerable movement of people at regular intervals and late in the night to keep the country running. and so on. that is going to be part of the defence, isn t it, i guess. this was a very unique moment in terms of how the government had to work and what constitutes party as opposed to what constitutes normal practices. of course, this whole question has generated so much angen question has generated so much anger, but borisjohnson is no longer prime minister, and some people might say is this like what is going on with trump where the procedure as to hound a former prime minister, who at the end of the day was leading the country through very difficult moment? difficult moment? from the exit that ou ve difficult moment? from the exit that you ve highlighted difficult moment? from the exit that you ve highlighted there, difficult moment? from the exit that you ve highlighted there, you - difficult moment? from the exit that you ve highlighted there, you can - you ve highlighted
do not be gaslit, he all. the united states or america is not a household. it is a global superpower. its bills are due. households don t have a multibillion dollar defense budget. households cannot impose taxes. households don t send the global market to its knees if they miss a payment. it really makes you wonder if speaker mccarthy knows anything about managing a house. i want to bring in democratic congresswoman camilla jayapal, who represents washington state seventh district. she s also chair of the congressional progressive caucus. congresswoman, i know you know a little bit about the house. congress doesn t need to act fast to raise their debt limit to keep the country running. congressman james comer of kentucky had this to say about that early on cnn. i will play it for you. republicans who are elected with a mandate from the american people and the midterm elections, we can t pay them on the fact that they had to be serious what spending cuts.
honest, marjorie taylor greene and other people who are illegitimate unserious people trying to say the buzz words to make them seem like they re serious legislators, they have told us what they want to do. they want to push impeachment, they want to allow us to default on our debt. they want investigations endlessly into hunter biden s laptop and who s somebody s dogcatcher and the deep state, all of this nonsense that has nothing to do with the american people and what this country needs as far as serious governing. that s what they re going to do. it is not going to be a serious group. remember, the adults in the room actually are in the senate and in the white house. you need everyone to agree on things. how are you going to get there to pass legislation that keeps this country running? strap in, everyone. it s going to be an eventful couple years. i don t think they re going to pass i don t think that s the goal. tim, it strikes me that, right, in the end, the purpose of the c
because sitting right behind kevin mccarthy s laura boebert is one of the holdouts until the very end. you re right, kevin mccarthy absolutely made the calculation that he was going to need donald trump on this side, and donald trump endorsed him and for a while that did not work this week. but people who are loyal to donald trump, some of those final holdouts, did come across the line. i think when you look back at two years ago there is an effort to take the government by force, to take the capital by force, and what we saw this week was very different in terms of the exercise of democracy in a republic. at the same time, as you point out, those same members are looking for new ways to dismantle the basic functions of our government and when you can see in the concessions that kevin mccarthy has made these members, it is that it is going to be very difficult for them to get anything down that gets the country running. what i mean by that specifically is raising the debt ceiling this