can be a reliable coalition partner and put down its internal grassroots rebellion if. as. it s rather of the phrase grassroots rebellion was intended to motivate those in the party who had leadership roles but may have felt they didn t have the strength to exercise them or members of either the cruft attorneyship they wanted at that stage the role of the c.s.u. was very counterproductive i never really understood why to be honest it almost made you think the c.s.u. didn t want to be in the coalition theseus which is of course its own beast believe it or. pressure was mounting on all sides and from within and without distrust was the order of the day as coalition talks began the principles were tightlipped.
what is the desert? it s absolutely what you need right w. absolutely scottsdale. kill the bill. kill the bill. summer 2009. leninism coming to you on a silver platter. i have the right of the government not to control my health care. across the country, a grassroots rebellion gets ugly. the target barack obama. why don t i have freedom? because we elected somebody that
kill the bill. summer 2009. leninism coming to you on a silver platter. i have the right of the government not to control my health care. across the country, a grassroots rebellion gets ugly. the target barack obama. why don t i have freedom? because we elected somebody that wants to take our freedom? enraged by bailouts, now the right went ballistic over health care. why don t they take the health care being forced down our throat? the president was undeterred. i m not the first president to take up this cause, but i am determined to be the last. we used a lot of political capital on health care. and the reason is simple. we re the only advanced nation on earth that didn t make sure that every person had affordable health care. when you consider that presidents have been trying since teddy roosevelt to get health care passed, fdr was hoping to do it, jfk.
who fights for it may give us an inkling the kind of candidate that will win the nomination on the gop side. jenna: we were showing john boehner at the podium. he hasn t spoken officially about this. i don t want our viewers to think we miss wad he had to say. interesting thoughts from joe on whether the republican party gets more clarity going into 2016 or less clarity and a schism. like all republican conferences, what happens inside, they never say what happened but they all leak and they all talk. there is a real grassroots rebellion out there. trump s numbers in these polls, it s a real trend it am not about a person or celebrity. it s about people in the country
all right. so yesterday house republicans had to elect their new majority leader to replace eric cantor in the wake of his stunning upset loss. and when do they choose in the wake of the stunning rebuke from grassroots conservatives? a guy by the name of kevin mccharthy, according to the american conservative union is to the left of eric cantor. philip klein, you wrote a column of how perverse and bizarre this was as an ending to the whole saga. what do you make of it? like i said, it s just the height of absurdity because you basically people sort of agreed that the defeat of eric cantor was driven by this grassroots rebellion against the leadership that had become out of touch. then eric cantor steps aside as