a politician. he doesn t mind being made fun of, but he has credibility with a lot of different groups. i mean, think about, you know, there s a great piece in huffington post about one summer in 19 2 he was a lifeguard and a pool and how that affected his thoughts about race and class and that that is something he took with him to the fight about the assault weapons ban, and so clearly this is a guy who is the sum total of a lot of different experiences that he is not afraid to, again, wear it on his sleeve. this is the man that said of eric cantor, this is our vice president, right? the man who works for barack obama whose deal whose grand bargain was scuttled in large part by eric captor. vice president biden said about eric cantor, this is a man who has kept his word and a mau man who is viewed as the anti-administration person, who is you ve ammistic at best. he kept his word. they were speaking about the violence against women act, but can you imagine, martin, the preside
someone else who could be speaker, they really are split. that, if anything is indicative of the fact that this caulk discuss very splintered right now. yeah, of those who did not vote forth speaker, three went for eric captor, okay, understandable, two for alan west, who is no longer part of the house, but interesting votes there how about speaker boehner who says that he s done, he is done negotiating one-on-one with the president, something that has not brought to fruition what he hoped would happen. ab, that does not exactly inspire confidence in our elected officials who are going to work together to get things done, one would presume. no, it s very disappointing that negotiations between the speaker around the president broke down, not only a year and a half ago when we were first at the bless business of default but also this december, trying to get to a bargain on the fiscal cliff. now we are heading to the very scary precipice of default again with republicans threatening
the piece you quoted from mip says it, rank and file republicans have kind of reasonable views here. the republicans in washington are just catering to the extremists in their own party. it is interesting that you have congressman chris van hollen yesterday saying he believes part of the maybe the strategy of speaker boehner in stalling out these talks to hold onto his position as speaker. you said he is hugely popular within the ranks. i don t know enough about what individual members of the house republican caucus are thinking about him right now but i would say this, it s entirely possible that if he gives obama his increase in marginal tax rates before january 1st sure, a lot of the tea party-type people in his cause cuss might think of him as a sellout. of course, he always has the threat of eric captor tapping him on the shoulder, wanting to be speaker around eric captor
you have seen of john boehner because eric cap thor is busy driving the knife into john boehner s back. eric captor has sort of taken himself to be the representative of the rowdy tea party caucus and the thorn in bainers a side every time he has a grand bar gape. your point about gingrich v romney, we talked about this on the show, this is part of the larger cleave in the republican party, a group of very archconservative, deficit above all else, incredibly right-wing republicans against the establishment and that s exactly what you see in the capped dash so i was newt gingrich and mitt romney and the split in their supporters. now, richard, if we were to ask boehner and someone did whether or not he caved, here s what he said. sometimes it s politically difficult do the right thing. may not have about politically the smartest thing in the world but i m going to tell you what, i think our members waged through a good fight, we were able to come to an agreement, able to fix what wh
driving the knife into john boehner s back. eric captor has sort of taken himself to be the representative of the rowdy tea party caucus and the thorn in bainers a side every time he has a grand bar gape. your point about gingrich v romney, we talked about this on the show, this is part of the larger cleave in the republican party, a group of very archconservative, deficit above all else, incredibly right-wing republicans against the establishment and that s exactly what you see in the capped dash so i was newt gingrich and mitt romney and the split in their supporters. now, richard, if we were to ask boehner and someone did whether or not he caved, here s what he said. sometimes it s politically difficult do the right thing. may not have about politically the smartest thing in the world but i m going to tell you what, i think our members waged through a good fight, we were able to come to an agreement, able to fix what what came out of the senate. am i am i crazy or is this