and yelling and hooping and hollering, are those people running the country right now? i get the feeling they are. if they can veto basically the congress doing anything about the debt ceiling. by the process of elimination they are. because as chuck explained, basically it s eric cantor who is the tribune of the tea party here. i think in addition to mitch mcconnell, john boehner, the speaker, would go along with a deal like that. i was talking to his people today. i detected a little bit of wiggle room there. yeah. but if cantor bails on boehner, and cantor is the guy defending the tea party, that splits the republicans in the house. then it ll never happen. that s basically the dynamic here. just to rattle the cage a little bit chuck and howard, here is the president on how his daughters do their homework a day ahead of time. they don t do all-nighters. this is a very personal shot at members of congress who are grown-ups, saying they re not as good as the president s kids a
today. i detected a little bit of wiggle room there. yeah. but if cantor bails on boehner, and cantor is the guy defending the tea party, that splits the republicans in the house. then it ll never happen. that s basically the dynamic here. just to rattle the cage a little bit chuck and howard, here is the president on how his daughters do their homework a day ahead of time. they don t do all-nighters. this is a very personal shot at members of congress who are grown-ups, saying they re not as good as the president s kids at doing their assignment. this is personal. listen. malia and sasha generally finish their homework a day ahead of time. malia s 13. sasha s 10. it is impressive. they don t wait until the night before. they re not pulling all-nighters. they re 13 and 10. you know, congress can do the
he dealt with back in illinois and the legislature there. boehner just wants to deal, boehner is being pressured by the tea party, et cetera. that might be a miscalculation by the president. meanwhile, on boehner s side, i think he thinks he has the upper hand here politically and strategically, and he thinks the president will eventually cave. so you have a grand miscalculation on both sides. and what tim geithner, the secretary of treasury, doesn t want, is for the countdown clocks to start a on msnbc, cnbc and so forth, so many hours, days and seconds, to default. that could create a psychology that would be incredibly damaging that would take hold in the markets and really do great damage to the dollar and the american economy. that s what geithner is worried about. the white house thinks they ve gotten private assurances from republicans on this. i m not sure they re worth the dollars they re printed on. and howard, the crisis you mentioned could occur even if we
cutting tax breaks he says will reduce the federal budget deficit. that is at odds with the g.o.p. long standing position on this issue and it is something the white house has been pushing amid concerns over rising gas prices. the average today for a gallon of regular unleaded is $3.87. this is the 3 5th straight day of increases. the gas companies are expected to report huge profits and the white house says it is time to end their tax subsidy and the speaker is suggesting that could be the way do go saying and i quote, we are in a time when the federal government is short on revenues, they ought to be paying their fair share. the white house today jumped on boehner s comments. to give an interview on television and in it express openness to eliminating unwarranted tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, as you know, this is something the president has long supported. the president sent a letter
deflected on boehner s vote today, and it is the tea party that boehner will need to pass his next budget bill in the house. joining me now is a tea party republican, congressman blake ther anfald, that represents the district that includes corpus christi. thank you for joining us. my pleasure. you said you weren t sure how you would vote. how did you vote today? i went ahead and voted for it. i think you re in the right place in government when you ve got both sides mad at you. you re about in the middle where most of the american people think you ought to be. what do you say to the 59 republicans who said this simply wasn t enough, this compromised too much with the democrats, and the cbo revealed that it was filled with budget accounting gimmicks that means there won t really be the amount of spending cuts that the negotiators claimed there would be? oh, i think there are significant cuts there.