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there s no way they re going to support this and it had a lot of people coming out saying they wouldn t support it. you know, even people like ted cruz. there s a lot of frustration on the republican leadership side of things because this is something they thought they could be a compromise they could get through. but there s no come prompromisea party. yeah, absolutely. but you point out there are some in the gop leadership quoted as saying, quote, does ted cruz have a plan to get 41 votes? really calling him out that there s a lot of lip service, but can you get anywhere with this? right, and that s frank thorpe, who s our house producer, who reported that on first read yesterday. i think that highlights the difference between pragmatism and ideology. a lot of these tea party folks feel like they were elected to wage ideological economic warfare, and they re not going to budge on what they believe. it s up to john boehner to try
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get well-reasoned arguments and others want to call up and raise cane with their congressman. they were peaking at 31,000 calls per hour at house of representatives. usually around 20,000, an average day and sent out a system alert saying that you know, that the phones were being taxed, the second time they had done this. by way of contrast, the high water mark for the deal was during health care, with 50,000. we re starting to see a little bit of a people calling up who are worried, that something might happen and you know, some people i talked to yesterday, people just average answering your kind of phone kind of people, on capitol hill. not chiefs of staffs, not members. starting to hear from business people, saying they were concerned there would be a triple-down effect and might have layoff people. and certainly the elderly, the social security checks, look, i live paycheck to paycheck on a fixed income, and if you, know, that check doesn t come in the mail i m up a cheek. chad,
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