in order to stop this law, delay it, you have to strip out the funding. the american people desefb nothing less than that. if you say let s delay the individual mandate, for example. not going to do much. what about the mandatory spending versus discretionary? that keeps coming up. the language we have introduced prohibits mandatory and discretionary spend ing. what mike said was important. this is not a single shot. this first c.r. passing the house is the first step. it will go to the senate. harry reid has 54 democrats. from frg harry reid said he s likely to dig in and threaten to shut everything down to preserve obamacare. it s going to get hot. it is. the first thing we need is senate republicans to stand together with house republicans. i can assure you mike and i will will that happen? i don t see john mccain doing
and now rand paul says this. i don t think shutting down the government is a good idea. people want us to stand up and fight. i m willing to stand up and fight. we should use the leverage of controlling 1/3 of the government. we don t control all of the government. but republicans control the house of representatives. they should stand up, use that power to at the very least make this job less bad, delay it, do something we can to protect the american public from this law. joining me now is msnbc political analyst steve schmidt. steve, is every debate within a political party necessarily a healthy debate? no. i don t know whether the debate we re having is healthy or not other than to say, lawrence,
the dumbest idea i ve ever heard of. and now rand paul says this. i don t think shutting down the government is a good idea. people want us to stand up and fight. i m willing to stand up and fight. we should use the leverage of controlling 1/3 of the government. we don t control all of the government. but republicans control the house of representatives. they should stand up, use that power to at the very least make this job less bad, delay it, do something we can to protect the american public from this law. joining me now is msnbc political analyst steve schmidt. steve, is every debate within a political party necessarily a healthy debate? no. i don t know whether the debate we re having is healthy or not other than to say, lawrence, we re going to have a titanic fight inside the republican party as we approach 2016.
takeover of healthcare. it s not going to be good for the american public. i think insurance premium also rise. i think the people they want to help, precisely the working class and the poor who don t have insurance. i think still won t have insurance. and they can have a penalty. so what i would say is people want us to stand up and fight. i m willing to stand up and fight. we should use the leverage of controlling 1/3 of the government. we don t control all of the government. but republicans control the house of representatives. they should stand up, use that power to, at the very least, make this lawless bad, delay it, do something we can to protect the american public from this law. or, if we do nothing, we are just saying to the president, hey, you get your way, but that s not really what the government is about. when the government is divided, we should use the leverage of controlling at least part of government to try to get the law more to our liking. you have talked about tr
overreach, this government takeover of healthcare. it s not going to be good for the american public. i think insurance premium also rise. i think the people they want to help, precisely the working class and the poor who don t have insurance. i think still won t have insurance. and they can have a penalty. so what i would say is people want us to stand up and fight. i m willing to stand up and fight. we should use the leverage of controlling 1/3 of the government. we don t control all of the government. but republicans control the house of representatives. they should stand up, use that power to, at the very least, make this lawless bad, delay it, do something we can to protect the american public from this law. or, if we do nothing, we are just saying to the president, hey, you get your way, but that s not really what the government is about. when the government is divided, we should use the leverage of controlling at least part of government to try to get the law more to our liking.