republican meeting that they re self-righteous and delusional. we re talking about maybe 40 50 people at most out of a caucus of 247. out of a congress of 435. we cannot allow such a small group to be dominating and controlling the what happens in the united states congress. i mean, he won t stand up to them. maybe it s him. maybe he doesn t have the strength internally. but will we shut down friday? will we go over the cliff this friday? we only have a week extension. i doubt it. i think what we saw with the week extension is what s going to carry the day, that he will have to turn to nancy pelosi who really is the power in the house at this point and he ll have to put something on the floor that doesn t defund the president s orders and he will have to get democratic partners. i think he will do that again. he has done it in the past at the last minute. i see that happening. joan walsh, thank you for your time tonight. thanks, rev. still ahead, the justice
we have a right to fund or not fund anything. vr time they talk about the shutdown, they point to the power of the purse. the power of the purse says we want you to do and we will fund 100% of keeping america safe and we won t fund visas and work permits for illegal immigrants. it s that simple. it s a straight forward understanding. he has no authority to grant work permits, therefore, we will not fund granting work permits for people unlawfully here. we are happy to do immigration reform. we have to be a willing partner. so the your analysis where you stand right now the house will not pass a bill that s sent over that doesn t defund this portion of the president s executive action? well funding and you know earlier, one of your folks were saying that people would be working without pay. that s just not true. as you know joe the fact is in every shutdown or partial
admit they won. the fight was about defunding obama care. we won that. the fight was about delaying obama care. won that. declare victory and lets move on. how much does democrats claiming victory does the president say even during a press conference a few weeks ago, robert, he said i tell john every time you see him, you should have taken the deal i was going to give in 2011. ouch, that is not going to help anybody here. you have erick erickson saying mitch mcconnell is the single obstacle we have this week taking our country back from the debt spiral instigated by obama and his merry band of community organizers. let mitch mcconnell know if he cuts a deal that doesn t defund or delay obama care, he will not be coming back to the senate. cue the darth vader. we ve just had an introduction into the meeting that s taken place on the death star. you re both right. we can t spine the football. democrats have to just say,
we have unespecially ploimploym still. we have record unemployment. sitting home wait a second. the government shutdown is like a fender bender. it s hurting the economy and if we defaulted on the debt, that would be like a 100-car pile-up. sounds like you re just blaming republicans. are you saying the president doesn t have any role in this? we re sitting here blaming the president. what about the republicans who will not agree with a deal that doesn t defund obama care. defund, delay, no special exemptions and talk. it s important to recognize a segment of the house that will not vote for any deal that does not defund obama care. this is what i think a lot of people are missing with this. i keep hearing our friends on the left talk about it s the law, it was passed by the house, it was passed by the senate, the supreme court. look, i think we would be better off in this country if we had a congress that did nothing but repeal bad laws. i think a lot of us in the the am
when they were rightly blamed for shutting down the government, republican leaders in the house openly dismissed the plan. here is member of the republican leadership tom cole on now this summer. shutting down the government is a suicidal political tactic. eventually it will be reopened, but the president will not have capitulated, and you will have discredited yourself. along the way, you would have hurt the american people. but it turns out the gop leadership wasn t prepared to contend with the radicalism of a core group within the house republican conference. fearing a revolt within his party, speaker john bay boehner has refused to vote on a bill that doesn t defund or delay the affordable care act. he s allowed more than 40 votes on futile bills stripping funding for the law. but the roots of dysfunction go even deeper. over the past 30 years, the republican party has grown increasingly detached from the ideological center. starting in 1980, republicans began a rightward lunch