this current debate. david, let s go to you. you don t look like a domestic terrorist to me. you don t look like a member of hezbollah. but i guess if you are a tea party person in the united states, you can pretty much have anything said about you with impunity. laura, look, my mother is watching and they did believe actually in positive reinforcement. they didn t call me names. but, you know what? let the left keep doing this and far left demonize and marginalize, americans are basically fair. they believe in disagreement but not being disgusting and disagreeable and, look, according to the left, i have stockholm syndrome, i m the house and word. i m the uncle tom. i mean, it s nothing new. can you guys come up with something different? because most rational americans on all sides look at the van jones and the rattners and the gee neon garofalos and mar. whether you attack sarah palin and statements about tea party activists.
metaphor here they are waiting for the main event. this is the pre-fight chatter. another metaphor you may want to use though is the gambling metaphor harry reid is also from las vegas. earlier today he said, look, if you are a gambling person, the republicans, as you were mentioning earlier, laura, have gotten a lot. you know, they have gotten this to essentially be all spending cuts. and no tax increases at all, despite what the president had originally been pushing. he basically said you should take your chips, put them in your pocket and go home. and we ll see whether or not republicans take that advice. so far they haven t. laura: let s go back to congress lank ford from oklahoma. you have been thrown into this fire. your first hill on capitol hill. this is pretty dramatic. now the face is finally focusing thanks the nation is finally focusing thanks to the tea party on this kept debt ceiling. clare grand compromise.
budget amendment in it. get a sense there is quite a bad bit of blooded and now they are moving on to consider the reid bill. and tomorrow the house is voting on the reid bill to vote that down. the amazing thing is we are just days away. we don t have a deal. talking about the house bill, it will be a shell and then send it to the senate and then send it back to the house. we don t have a deal yet so therefore nothing can happen. and the amazing thing is that when they do announce a deal and i think it will come from reid, mcconnell with boehner s input and the senate will vote on it, i think it will be difficult to get it through the house because of the freshmen, because of the tea party lawmakers and also because of the liberals. a lot of the liberals in the house want to use the 14th amendment and they don t like reid s plan and a little irked at the president for putting entitlements on the table. i think the vote in the house on the final deal is going to
one of my colleagues that are they are going to try to honor their constituents back home. laura: your duty is also to the united states of america, right. it actually is. laura: that s the most important duty. if our nation is imperiled by ongoing drama at some point you do have to give. james, i want to get you in on this compromise has become, you know, a dirty word for a lot of people. i understand why because usually it s conservatives, from my perspective, who, you know, get shafted in a compromise. they are very scepght particular call of it yet, we are at the point where that is what is going to have to happen. i think it s a hard pill for a lot of these tea party folks to swallow. i do understand that. after the boehner bill passed, there were actually house republican freshman sending out press releases boasting of having successfully pressured the leadership. that wouldn t have happened in an earlier era. laura: fascinating. we will go back to bret baier who is t
gentrified and very refined he clearly is very annoyed at this moment. tempers are flaring. these two men are going to have sit down at a table together over the weekend or early next week and they have to figure this out. and they have been. and, yet, as far as i can tell and what ed henry has said is that the president himself has not been actively engaged as much as maybe we thought on the phone today with any of these individuals. go ahead, bret. bret: sorry to interrupt. remember, this is about the reid plan. they have now put aside the boehner plan that is kind of on ice. not dead but it s on ice. and they are not talking about senate majority leader reid s plan. now, there is a worry and kind the going bet is that he doesn t have 60 votes on his plan. as it s written now because they need to do this compromise. a little bit of this is