leadership you elect listens to members and respects the legislative process entrusted to committees. this while the government shutdown fight seems to be wrapping up. boehner saying a shutdown won t happen. nbc s capitol hill correspondent kelly o donnell is standing by for us. general reaction to mccarthy s reaction a few hours ago? it was expected, craig. he is next in line. at the same time, kevin mccarthy is unusual compared to past speakers because he is not someone having a long history being a part of congress. came here elected in 2006. coming to washington in 2007. that is just a blip in the amount of time it usually takes to move up the ranks and become speaker. the other interesting thing about mccarthy is that part of his sort of duty in working his way up has been recruitment of new members over the past several years. he would meet a republican who might be serving on city council
that s exactly right. what you have with walker is a guy who has gone ahead and fought these battles in the state government and defeated very powerful lobbies the government employee union and when he is talking about the people who fight but don t win, he is basically pointing at ted cruz for the most part who had his government shutdown fight that did not end very well for the republicans. he didn t get to block obamacare. he was talking about the other people who might win but without fighting tough fights. talking about chris christie whose record as governor of new jersey he can t point to number of accomplishments ha walker has done in wisconsin. so that really is message that puts himself between the tea partiers mostly in the senate where they just don t have very many success and establishment guys pointing at jeb bush and chris christie mostly. jon: let me talk about one of the themes that some are writing about, ab, see if you agree with
want to do and the one everyone knows at the end of the road is impeachment. i don t think they ll get forgsed into that position. they have to be careful they don t get pushed that far that s the step they have to take. they have not proved if we re speaking republican leadership, john boehner has not proven deft at walking his congress to the edge of the cliff, let s turn around, guys. you ve weighed in on this. sarah palin is calling for boehner to impeach the president over his immigration policies. i don t understand once how helpful it is to gin up that wing of the base and not deliver. i think boehner is doing a better job, walking the line between tossing red meat to the base without indulging deepest fantasies on scandal issues than the government shutdown fight and previous fights in obama s first term. i think that the problem he s going to face is that he s kind of like flipping through cards, there s benghazi and vets. a really thin tarot deck.
candidates don t say i m not a scientist but call into question the whole thing. that s a very unpopular opinion. if it is coupled with another sort of big republican presidential loss, then i think they can come to terms with it. the only way i can imagine that happening is if this is just brewing now, is the republicans in congress are going to try to repeal the authority for these rules during the appropriations process. if they get really dug in, and start another government shutdown fight over this and it costs them the senate majority they hope for, then grown-ups might arrive on the scene and say it s time to rethink our position on this. brad, what are the long-time theories, was that epa rules would create a spur for republicans to come to a different view on climate change. even if you don t want to necessarily do anything, the fact there are executive agency enforced rules coming out will create industry pressure, you ll
obamacare. the administration needs democratic unity behind it on this when you have six senators, democrats complaining about this, they had to try to make them happy. martha: politically though, byron, i wonder does this make more sense? in other words, is this going to get those six senators over the hump with their constituents? is that going to be enough, or, the other option of the administration saying you know what? we re having a lot of problems, there s a lot of workout issues with all of this. let s take a year and allow everybody to, you know, stay on their plan androle over the course of that year? would that be more politically favorable especially in these tough, these tough states? you know i think they re just trying to get through today. martha: seems that way. there s a hugely improve visional quality to all of this. the president and democrats put their feet in cement during the government shutdown fight, no changes to obamacare, no delays, no nothing. now they