i think they are impressed with it. he s the one for kentucky to get rid of him would be a huge mistake. the other thing about the tea party challenges, if you mount a real challenge, orrin hatch did. john mccain. if you fight it out, you ll win. if you like robert bennett, the rules are against you i think it helps to have a personality. it does. anyway i will say this. mitch mcconnell did his job this week. it was a good thing for the country. mcconnell expressed confidence to the extreme republicans and learned the lesson in the showdown shutdown. there s no politics in the second kick of a mule. there will not be a government shutdown. we fully acquainted our new members what a losing strategy that is. john, i think that s true. but there s more likelihood that come january there could be a shutdown of some length. but i do think your party and the country got a wakeup call about screwing around with the debt ceiling. i think people who watch the finance pages
finance pages, retired people. once you re 75 years old, the people watching know this, you can t get another job and make a ton of money. this is it. your kitty, what you ve been able to save and build with interest rates, compound interest, you don t want that screwed with. john boehner and mitch mcconnell worked this out, there was never going to be a debt default, never going to happen. i said this on the showman i months ago. that wasn t going to happen. john boehner wouldn t let it happen. what did he tell us? he told the 30 members of the moderate caucus, he wouldn t going to let it happen. it got out. it s my problem with him, i have a lot of problems with boehner. but my big problem is he knew at the end you pull the plug, for all the days and weeks the economy was getting hurt and the shakiness we showed to the world was not good for us in the long run. if an airplane makes a rough landing, you re not getting on that plane again. he hurt us. yet all the time he knew