we love getting your tweets about the show. keep them coming. maybe i will read one before we get to the end of the program. we will get to the sad shooting around the capitol, but first, we have this, the cover of new york dailey news depicted a blood-stained john boehner as presiding over a house of turds. it has produced contentious interviews such as this one with cnn s ashleigh banfield. you are telling your listers that we are holding this up and the government is going to shut down. we have reached out to the democrats with a compromise congressman. that is not dare. don t you dire put this back on me, you know you have attached obama care and defunding it and
we love getting your tweets about this show. keep them coming @howardkurtz. maybe i ll read one before we get to the end of the program. we ll get to that sad shooting near the capitol in a moment. but first if there s one image that s almost a parody of the media nair ty in the great government shutdown, it is this, a bloodstained john boehner as presiding over a house of turds. refusing to finance the government unless obama care is defunded or delayed. and that has produced some contentious interviews such as this one with cnn s ashleigh banfield. you re telling your listeners that we republicans are holding this up and the government s going to shut down, we have actually reached out to the democrats with a compromise position congressman, that s not fair. don t you dare put this back on me. you know full well no, you know full well you ve attached it to obama care and defunding it. you can t make something up. ted cruz ripped the coverage
he has the impact. not sure the strategy exists. take a listen to what he tried to explain was the end game to chris wallace a week or so ago. here is the question everyone on beth sioth sides in washingt asking, what is your end game. let s say that you block consideration of any bill in the senate. let s say you lose, and the bill goes into the senate. they take on obama care. they send it become to the house. what s your end game. because the the government is going to shut down. a week from monday. well, i don t want the government to shut down. the american people don t want the government off to shut down. i don t think harry reid and president obama should shut down the government. so, linguistic jujitsu there. people know congress shut it down. even false equivalency narrative refers to congress not the president shutting it down. what do you make of this? what i make of this. senator cruz started the defunding effort. i don t think he ever expected the house leadersh
the democratic speaker of the house on the house floor giving a speech to republican members. you have it word for word. he says to them, you got here because of the freshmen. you got here because of him. show loyalty to him. trying to teach them boston irish lesson. about politics. when social security needed fixing they got together. when taxes needed to be fixed. got together. northern ireland. had troubles. you and i know about that. they got together. when it came time for the speaker, the speaker to see gorbachev, new soviet leader laid the way for reagan. got a letter for the president. talk about how times changed. i have a letter. by the way a sincere guy. he will negotiate with you. unites our country. we are behind him. that kind of unity is chilling today. tip thought as you tell the story in the book. tip thought, ronald reagan didn t win the presidency. jar jimmy carter. a rejection of jimmy carter.
their constituents. it demonstrates the lack of seriousness the house republicans have known in approaching this very simple task, which is fulfilling their responsibility to keep the government open, to extend funding at current levels, no partisan strings attached by democrats, no partisan strings attached by the president, just do your job, fund the president, keep it open. the president said as he has said all along and has all year to discuss negotiations about broader budget issues, how we invest to make our country secure and continue to reduce the deficits. but in a balanced way. this approach demonstrates