class is very hard right on this ideological issue of never seeing any tax increases. and the republican, just the campaign committees, if you compare the republican congressional campaign committee with the dccca that raises for the democrats, the republicans are more reliant on the big donors. republicans really do have to constantly cater to a very hard right wing donor class that wants to hear this message. they don t want to hear boehner capitulate. if you read a lot of the right wing sides, not the crazy ones, they re already teeing up to say boehner is a failure, he gave into obama. they want to hear him talk the talk. while he still has the rejectionists in hand in the lame duck caucus and while he has that donor class that wants to hear this conservative rhetoric, he s still got to play the game. behind the scenes i think republicans understand they re going to lose that top rate fight. they re going to lose that, and i wouldn t be surprised if they wound up putting the debt c
include not just the tea party crazies but the right wing donor class is very hard right on this ideological issue of never seeing any tax increases. and the republican, just the campaign committees, if you compare the republican congressional campaign committee with the dccca that raises for the democrats, the republicans are more reliant on the big donors. republicans really do have to constantly cater to a very hard right wing donor class that wants to hear this message. they don t want to hear boehner capitulate. if you read a lot of the right wing sides, not the crazy ones, they re already teeing up to say boehner is a failure, he gave into obama. they want to hear him talk the talk. while he still has the rejectionists in hand in the lame duck caucus and while he has that donor class that wants to hear this conservative rhetoric, he s still got to play the game. behind the scenes i think republicans understand they re going to lose that top rate fight. they re going to lose that,
amattic. we have to go through this whole thing. he s saying to the liberals who might be willing to go along with the deal, even if you go along with this, there will be more to pay in two months in february, then more a few months after that. he s making it very difficult for the president to convince his progressives, maybe we ought to give a little. if i give here on medicare, i m going to have to give again in a month and another month. it looks horrible. the other side he s saying, this is going to be fun. maybe he s playing to his right wing crowd saying if we don t get a big apple bite this time, we ll get another bite next month. who is he playing to when he says we re going to have more trouble down the road? you have to remember the cross currents facing boehner include not just the tea party crazies but the right wing donor class is very hard right on this ideological issue of never seeing they tax increases. and the republican, just the campaign committees, if you compar