they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they leave with something so it s not a shutdown about nothing. he s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage showdowns to get policy concessions.
they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they leave with something so it s not a shutdown about nothing. obama s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage showdowns to get policy concessions. if they were not doing this they
oppose so they couldn t go to them for votes. the one thing i will say when they do eventually get through this and go to a budget conference, i will be surprised if the medical device tax survives. it was more killed because people didn t want to give up the principal of not negotiating here. that s right. and that point applies on both sides. republicans want to make sure that they ollleave with somethi so it s not a shutdown about nothing. he s trying to break the tea party and trying to break boehner. the issue is about more trying to smash the republican party than about substantive objectives to what was in these deals. it s not trying to smash the republican party. obama would like to deal with compromise that would make them more popular in a lot of ways, it was trying to smash a lot of the tactics, they had begun pioneering or really using aggressively in recent years which were these hostage