look, i think they are keeping an eye on the election. i think part of the parliamentary tactics you were talking about a moment ago are born out of the necessity that 31 members of the freshman class are in districts that president obama carried in 2008. so when you look at a 2012 electoral map, all of those freshman republicans have to be a little bit nervous when you look at the turnout that s going to occur in those democratic districts in november. you know, the bottom line, though, for this is the republican party wants to have an argument, to have a discussion about how to grow the economy. jeb bush in a brilliant editorial in the wall street journal talked about conservatives and the right to rise. about the validity of the system. that s the space where republicans can do well. where republicans should be arguing. this just as a tactical issue isn t a great fight for
election while taking these positions? look, i think they are keeping an eye on the election. i think part of the parliamentary tactics you were talking about a moment ago are born out of the necessity that 31 members of the freshman class are in districts that president obama carried in 2008. so when you look at a 2012 electoral map, all of those freshman republicans have to be a little bit nervous when you look at the turnout that s going to occur in those democratic districts in november. you know, the bottom line, though, for this is the republican party wants to have an argument, to have a discussion about how to grow the economy. jeb bush in a brilliant editorial in the wall street journal talked about conservatives and the right to rise. about the validity of the system. that s the space where republicans can do well. where republicans should be
on wall street saying do something, do anything. this group of freshman republicans aren t really budging. will it have been an impact heez emails and phone calls, who knows. it may mean that house republican leaders have to shift away from what these small group of freshman republicans want. we ll see if it has an impact or not. there s not a whole lot of time left. indeed. thank you so much. we will be talking with nbc s chuck todd in a few minutes. the first tropical system of the year has fizzled out. tropical storm don has weakened into a tropical depression. the storm made landfall along corpus christie. it brought little relief to the record breaking heat in the lone star state. here s with your saturday forecast bill karins. good saturday morning to you, bill. all the hype going into last night is what would don do in texas? don did nothing. don was a dud. look at the radar, it s hard to figure out where the storm would
republicans aren t really budging. will it have been an impact heez emails and phone calls, who knows. it may mean that house republican leaders have to shift away from what these small group of freshman republicans want. we ll see if it has an impact or not. there s not a whole lot of time left. indeed. thank you so much. we will be talking with nbc s chuck todd in a few minutes. the first tropical system of the year has fizzled out. tropical storm don has weakened into a tropical depression. the storm made landfall along corpus christie. it brought little relief to the record breaking heat in the lone star state. here s with your saturday forecast bill karins. good saturday morning to you, bill. all the hype going into last night is what would don do in texas? don did nothing. don was a dud. look at the radar, it s hard to figure out where the storm would be. there s barely any showers or
generation of republicans in line. and president obama warns, and i m quoting him now, we are almost out of time, urging all americans to keep the pressure on washington and bring this devastating crisis to an end. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. you re looking at a live picture right now of the house floor, where just a short time from now, we expect to see that critical vote on the gop debt plan. the vote was supposed to happen yesterday around this time, but was abruptly postponed when the house speaker john boehner failed to get the 216 votes it needs for passage. meanwhile, with only days left to solve this unprecedented crisis, wall street is already reeling. stocks posted their worst weekly performance in more than a year while the dow fell about 97 points today. this on the heels of a dismal new economic report out today, showing the country s economic growth has now slowed to a crawl. let s go straight to our congressional correspondent, kate ba