stuff in the state has really divided people. i think friendships are lost. people are sensitive about this. tomorrow may be the presidential primary in wisconsin, however, it is the upcoming recall election in june for governor scott walker that s got people talking. backed by a petition with almost 1 million signatures, state officials ruled friday walker would face a recall on june 5th. walker s budget caused an uproar last year because it stripped most collective bargaining rights from public worker the state senator joins me live to talk about this. this has a lot of people paying attention for the political model that this may put forth. is this really dividing the state as we re hearing from that one man there? yeah, it really is dividing the state. it s good to see you again, by the way. what s going on in wisconsin right now, and it doesn t matter if you re a golfing buddy, card playing buddies, the state s divided. we can t talk about certain
taxation, a means testing of medicare, et cetera, et cetera. there is room to manoeuvre in there as firm as she sounded. there are plenty of things you can do in medica. clinton s first act on medicare was to cut it substantially. without hitting beneficiaries. where do we go from here? cantor has walked out. is boehner really going to go in alone and have the burden alone of talking about taxation with the president, with democrats? well, initially, i think he will. i think he will. i think they are playing a sort of bad cop and worse cop routine here, where boehner, the golfing buddy no show cop. and the cop who is here but he is not allowed to discuss it. the one eating the doughnuts in the car. boehner will have the doughnuts. and he ll be sitting and listening to the president and get the president to say whatever he s going to say about closing loopholes or raising taxes, whatever. then they ll run out and denounce that.
here, where boehner, the golfing buddy no show cop. and the cop who is here but he is not allowed to discuss it. the one eating the doughnuts in the car. boehner will have the doughnuts. and he ll be sitting and listening to the president and get the president to say whatever he s going to say about closing loopholes or raising taxes, whatever. then they ll run out and denounce that. and then eric cantor will be the no-show who will say we will not stand it, we will not stand for it, we will not stand for it. interestingly, in the end, i think the problem on the republican side is not going to be where we re looking. it s not going to be eric cantor and it s not going to be john boehner. it s going to be mitch mccob connell, the republican guy in the senate, who has sort of veto power with filibustering and whatnot, who is desperate to get a republican majority in the senate, who is going to be the problem here. and we haven t even considered him yet. but he is lying in the weeds
taxation, a means testing of medicare, et cetera, et cetera. there is room to manoeuvre in there as firm as she sounded. there are plenty of things you can do in medicare. clinton s first act on medicare was to cut it substantially. without hitting beneficiaries. where do we go from here? cantor has walked out. is boehner really going to go in alone and have the burden alone of talking about taxation with the president, with democrats? well, initially, i think he will. i think he will. i think they are playing a sort of bad cop and worse cop routine here, where boehner, the golfing buddy no show cop. and the cop who is here but he is not allowed to discuss it. the one eating the doughnuts in the car. boehner will have the doughnuts. and he ll be sitting and listening to the president and get the president to say whatever he s going to say about closing loopholes or raising taxes, whatever. then they ll run out and denounce that.
and someone is asking me a question about this, i don t recall him saying that no. then i dive into my notes and talk to people in the meeting and make it very clear this is an important point and go back and look at it, i think you can come out and be more declare tif the next time you come to the forefront. to say it somehow, that because of two sources, one that clearly doesn t like the president politically, lindsey graham who has called him every name in the book as your second source. i put a huge asterisk. where s kevin mccarthy? and mario lindsey graham went on the view and said a whole bunch of things trashing the president. let s not act they are golfing buddy. why aren t republicans coming out to say defen tifly and do they need to? if they don t, i don t know. i m sure a reporter will be more than happy to ask that question. we re acting as if somehow this is definite because of two