if we go over the dairy cliff, would there be any doubt as to who is to blame? we don t have to figure out real deeply who is at fault here. no, it s very clear who s at fault. we have a group within the republicans and boehner has seen he can t control them. dogma trumps everything else. i think this is a foretelling of what we re going to see for the next two years, a group in the republican party who do not care about anything other than their perspective and making sure their idea of how things should be done gets done or nothing gets done. yeah, they re curdling the milk to be sure. explain to us how food stamps factor into this. this is one of the most ludicrous and tragic elements of this entire story. statistically every 50th person you pass on the street is living on no income at all except food stamps because there are not jobs for those people. they re not slackers, they re not people who are indolent or
milk. if we go over the dairy cliff, would there be any doubt as to who is to blame? we don t have to figure out real deeply who is at fault here. no, it s very clear who s at fault. we have a group within the republicans and boehner has seen he can t control them. dogma trumps everything else. i think this is a foretelling of what we re going to see for the next two years, a group in the republican party who do not care about anything other than their perspective and making sure their idea of how things should be done gets done or nothing gets done. yeah, they re curdling the milk to be sure. explain to us how food stamps factor into this. this is one of the most ludicrous and tragic elements of this entire story. statistically every 50th person you pass on the street is living on no income at all except food stamps because there are not jobs for those people.
short to come back to washington, d.c., meanwhile, house republicans are literally phoning it in, this is the ed show, and as ed would say, let s get to work. this is something within our capacity to solve. it doesn t take that much work, we just have to do the right thing. six days away from the fiscal cliff and there are real consequences to millions of americans if no deal is cut. congressman elijah cummings and ryan grim of the huffington post are here with the latest. a tea party giant stages a coupe with his own office. the details on dick armey s hostile takeover. the nra is catching heat from all directions. i don t think the nra is listening, i don t think they understand. georgetown university law professor, david cole on the growing drum beat against the nra. six days until the price of milk shoots up to $8 a gallon. why house republicans are take ing america to the dairy cliff.
beholden to the nra. the democrats are scared of the nra. i m not convinced that the nra is as powerful as it is. particularly when it s membership disagrees with its leadership about the propriety of reasonable gun regulation. professor david cole of georgetown law school, thank you so much for coming on tonight. thank you. there s a lot more coming up in the next half hour on the ed show. got milk? house republicans are holding up the farm bill, and the price for a gal of milk will begin shooting up in just six days. david k. johnston weighs in on the dairy cliff. two controversial movies are heating up the box office. spike lee s beef with quintin tarantino s slavery saga django.
billion a month on long-term government bonds but will now buy them outright. and from the buffalo news, agricultural industry analysts are warning the price of milk could double if no action is taken on the so-called dairy cliff. is that a slippery slope, too? it is a dairy cliff. the farm bill continues to stale out in congress. without its passage, the nation will revert to policies dating back to the 1940s. products containing milk could jump up dramatically. coming up next, where in the world is vice president joe biden? that s the question that, of course, all of americans wake up to every morning. the man with the capitol connection is actually being left out of fiscal cliff negotiations. we re going to ask mike allen next why next in the politico playbook. for those with visions of doing this.