pressure of republicans not knowing why they re doing this, and how long they will do this, the rattle of the financial markets, they may actually blow through the debt ceiling today. the continuing pressure is breaking this thing for everyone. but if this is in fact breaking apart. what happens next? joining me now, ryan grim, thank you for joining us. thank you. what is the capitol hill manifestation of the kinds of shifts we re seeing around the arguments about why they re doing this, about what their strategy is, how is this manifesting among house republicans? you re totally right, the way this whole thing has broken apart, but that has been a gift to republicans. because as i said earlier they didn t really have a strategy. they were just kind of waiting for something to happen. so the tea party putting the debt ceiling off the table is a gift to them in the sense that it at least allows them form a
washington. and inside the cage, inside washington, they did get rattled. the republican politics around the shutdown and the debt ceiling and what this is all about and where they ought to hold the line and what they re supposed to be fighting for just collapsed today. the narrative just collapsed. two of the most aggressive conservative groups who have been pushing for the shutdown all along, who have been hounding any republicans who wouldn t go along with the shutdown, today, two of the groups essentially bowed out. the ceo of heritage action, which is the political part of the jim demint group, the heritage foundation, they target ed republicans with ads, they ran ads against 100 different republicans demanding that they take a hard line on the shutdown. well, they said republicans should pass a debt ceiling.
markets, they may actually blow through the debt ceiling today. the continuing pressure is breaking this thing for everyone. but if this is in fact breaking apart. what happens next? joining me now, ryan grim, thank you for joining us. thank you. what is the capitol hill manifestation of the kinds of shifts we re seeing around the arguments about why they re doing this, about what their strategy is, how is this manifesting among house republicans? you re totally right, the way this whole thing has broken apart, but that has been a gift to republicans. because as i said earlier they didn t really have a strategy. they were just kind of waiting for something to happen. so the tea party putting the debt ceiling off the table is a
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also, freedom works banging the drum for a shutdown for months now, today, freedom work s ceo told the huffington post that yeah, we think they ought to pass the debt ceiling, at least get that part taken care of. the same ceo for freedom works a week ago said we will go past the deadline for the debt ceiling, and i don t think that was a bad thing. that was a week ago, with wall street getting freaked out a week later and politico freaked out about it, now he changes his tune and says yeah, we need to pass the debt ceiling. both the heritage action group, they re trying to save face saying the only reason we don t want to blow through the debt ceiling now is we don t want it to be a distraction on the focus of obama care, but at the same time they made that declaration today, paul ryan said the republicans need to keep up the fight for a bunch of stuff that does not center around obama