certainly not by the white house. why would they? we ve talked about democrats giving republicans an opportunity to save face. i think the white house and harry reid would like to humiliate the republicans and like to send them a message and if you re led around by ted cruz and sarah palin going forward the same thing will happen to you again. they are going for the best, toughest deal they can get. at this point the big variable can they get a debt ceiling extension into next year. republicans know they are on the precipice not only having their party badly divided if they cave but losing any leverage to get the kind of entitlement reform they would like to get. ted cruz s strategy has put the republican party at 24%, their all time low, katty. and, yet, there are certainly a number of people, maybe it s that 24% in america that are saying, you know, keep at it, let s go even further. and there s no doubt that if
to go back and revisit that before we ll agree to a debt ceiling extension is also changing the rules in the middle of the game. they are saying we d like to make continuing resolution expire before lower levels come in and give us that period of time to negotiate replacements for that sequester. i think it s slightly different than saying you want to change the rules. remember, the whole sequester, point was it would never come into being because it was so dramatic and so negative in its impacts any rational person would not allow that to happen. rational is not always the order. the question is are you going to correct it and continue to damage the economy and some significant programs both defense and domestic. that s an issue that has to be taken up but it can t be taken
the president will make clear he will negotiate. just take the gun away from the head in terms of the debt ceiling extension. and your position, we respect to health care is different from where the republican party was three weeks ago. what happened to bringing down the tone? the president s use of phrases like gun to the head, he promised he would not use language like that and encouraged them not to use language like that. i think the point is playing politics with the debt ceiling, no one had done that before 2011 and everyone most real serious republican politics republican economists are saying this is a silly thing to be doing. colonel west articulated a coherent point of view. if he believes that if the republican party believes
they say it s too close of a debt ceiling extension coming up january 31st, 2014. they want the government to be funded longer than march 31st of 2014. they are having lunch right now, there s a republican lunch and a senate lunch. we ll know more at 2:00 once they are out of that. they are ping-ponging ideas back and forth, but it looks like the senate wants to be a bipartisan agreement that would fund the government and extend the debt limit. we don t know what it s going to look like, but they want to get something they hope by tonight, at least announced, and then we ll move to a procedural process forward. the way the senate works, it is ted cruise or mike lee or rand paul, if those guys want to derail this deal because they don t like it, they can put up some sort of a fight. i talked to one aid, if you have a long-drawn out fight could push this all the way to thursday, the day of default. it s a fluid situation with a lot of things going on. as of right now, any deal to fund th
want to move forward, put this kind of battle behind them, and the white house thinks that area at least is going to hold more promise than say the house at least at this point, migel. but this failure of the senate to get cloture, for a clean cr, that vote doesn t price anyone i take it, but we don t seem farther along. the ball seems to be in the same place as earlier in the week, no? reporter: it does, but i think what you re seeing is the house republican proposal which is very much kind of to the right and then this idea of just a clean one year debt ceiling extension or more than a year, because it would have gone beyond mid term elections is very much to the left. now they start a process of inching toward the middle. now where is that though. the white house feels very much that it has more leverage and polls it up that the white house has more leverage. there s a significant margin when you look at who americans blame, they are blaming republicans far more than they