down to nothing, and the a advantage he has is a path to break out of the field and that is the iowa caucus and he s focusing all of his efforts, right now in advance of the straw poll in a couple of weeks. bill: one more thing, washington post has a pullout and they list the candidates an mitt romney is the front-runner in that poll as well. and followed by sarah palin. and michelle bachmann, 12% and ron paul and rick perry and those are your top five. yes. bill: and pawlenty has not cracked the number yet. look at the field, bill, and break down the poll and it shows you the potential path to victory for mitt romney, which would be similar to the path to victory for john mccain, you look at the internals of the poll and there is not a lot of enthusiasm or intensity about mitt romney, but, he has pretty solid establishment support, about a third of republican voters and if the rest of the field is broken up and no one clearly emerges, that is the
the card. that s what i thought. they had an agreement at the white house last night and that john boehner would have to try to sell it to his caucus and that s why he stayed quiet. harry reid could take no more and turned over the card and said look, it s come down to nothing other than planned parenthood. has there been any movement in the last couple of hours that you re aware of that s getting us any closer? well at this moment, in fact, people are working very, very hard and are very close. so i m hopeful we ll see something happen in the next couple of hours. and if it takes a stop-gap measure for the next couple of days to be able to write the language, that s fine. but law whence, i have to tell you paem in michigan are just scratching their heads about what in the world is going on. we re halfway through the year and we still don t have a budget and current diversions and the