something that s dead on arrival. i think the simple answer to that question is this isn t about what the democrats are going to do. this is about a fight within the republican party, and what you ve seen right now in that republican caucus is a house speaker who s been dragged kicking and screaming into this fight. they doesn t want to shut the government down, he never has, but he s got a very vocal part of his caucus which says we want to take a stand off president s health reform plan, and we believe that the continuing resolution, as well as raising the debt ceiling down the road is the place to do it. so they have taken a stand once, they sent it over to the senate, the senate lopped off the repeal of obama care, they shoved it back to the house and the house is saying, you know? we republicans have not changed our minds. what you re seeing going on is really a fight within the
thank you, good to see you. have a great evening. same here. all right. creeping closely to the top of the hour we re almost there, i m don lemon, thanks so much for joinings, you re in the cnn newsroom. ticktock, ticktock, we re inching closer and closer to a government shutdown. this could happen midnight monday unless a sharply divided congress can cut a budget deal soon. can they do it? right now the ball is in the house s court. the house is set to vote later today on a republican spending plan that would add controversial measures to undermine obama care. the plan includes this a one-year delay on fully implementing obama care and a repeal of a tax on medical devices. any house gop plan faces almost certain death in the senate. so, democratic leader harry reid has said that any bill that would change obama care
night monday night. so as far as i m told there havant been but we re not at monday night. things can change quickly. it s like any of these lawmakers didn t know this was coming? yeah. let s move on to jim acosta, who is live at the white house for us. is it true that president obama is i playing golf today? it s true. we may not get reaction from him? is he focusing on this? how do we expect the white house to respond to this plan? well, i think to use a golf analogy, the way the white house looks at this is the republicans are in the sand trap right now. and the president not showing a great deal of concern about what s happening on capitol hill right now, at least from a recreational standpoint. he is out playing golf right now in virginia. he ll be back in the nation s capital later on this evening. according to white house officials i ve been talking with alison, what the president said
from bush. i could go on and on. the point is this, republicans confronted with an administration that showed time and again they did want to work with them and incorporate some conservative ideas. republicans instead responded by simply saying this is socialism, massive government, a threat to freedom. has the conservative movement destroyed its credibility by responding so hysterically to what has really been a moderate president? well, you know, i think both sides are at fault politically here. let s go back to the fact that the health reform plan was passed in 2010. it was before the midterm election. i ll address that in a second. let me talk about the political mistakes made by the obama administration. passing a plan through two houses of congress it controlled, not bothering to garner a single vote from the republicans but they tried to do that. look at the negotiations with chuck grassley. how many months did those drag on for? olympia snowe said she wouldn t do it becau
why would you want top replace barack obama with a politician who did the same thing. he just did it first. romney campaign is a totally incoherent mess over this right now. since the health reform ruling from the supreme court, they have been flailing so ostentatiously on this issue that the right is freaking out about the prospects of the romney campaign. the wall street journal editorial campaign on section on the campaign s confusion. they have turned the supreme court ruling in favor of health reform into quote, a second political defeat. after romney said in 2008 that his health plan was a tax and then in 2009 that his health reform plan was a tax then not a tax. then yesterday it was not a tax. today the wall street journal saying it s enough. calling out the campaign for looking confused in addition to being politically dumb.