faction within this country. the sad thing, that s the problem with our country right now, democrats are so left and republicans are so right and the vast majority of republicans are in the middle and they don t care about bannon. cornell, what the congressman said, maybe they ll do a deal with the dems, you have the far right in the house, many of whom would rather go down and get zero at the end of the day to, you know, allowing great to be the enemy of the good. you know, this is fascinating, because, look, i mean, we had this thing called the house set rule from the former speaker, the majority of the majority, part of what i think is broken about congress right now is that, you know, there are enough democrats and republicans that could get together across partisan lines here to do a lot of things. i mean, there s enough democrats and republicans, quite frankly, to amend some of the ails of ata. there are enough republicans and
problem with our country right now, democrats are so left and republicans are so right and the vast majority of republicans are in the middle and they don t care about bannon. cornell, what the congressman said, maybe they ll do a deal with the dems, you have the far right in the house, many of whom would rather go down and get zero at the end of the day to, you know, allowing great to be the enemy of the good. you know, this is fascinating, because, look, i mean, we had this thing called the house set rule from the former speaker, the majority of the majority, part of what i think is broken about congress right now is that, you know, there are enough democrats and republicans that could get together across partisan lines here to do a lot of things. i mean, there s enough democrats and republicans, quite frankly, to amend some of the ails of aca. there are enough republicans and democrats right now in the house together to sort of come up with a fix to daca. the problem is, there s
he can make as much noise as he wants to make. but he represents a very small faction within this country. the sad thing, that s the problem with our country right now, democrats are so left and republicans are so right and the vast majority of republicans are in the middle and they don t care about bannon. cornell, what the congressman said, maybe they ll do a deal with the dems, you have the far right in the house, many of whom would rather go down and get zero at the end of the day to, you know, allowing great to be the enemy of the good. you know, this is fascinating, because, look, i mean, we had this thing called the house set rule from the former speaker, the majority of the majority, part of what i think is broken about congress right now is that, you know, there are enough democrats and republicans that could get together across partisan lines here to do a lot of things. i mean, there s enough democrats and republicans, quite frankly,
to amend some of the ails of aca there are enough republicans and democrats right now in the house together to sort of come up with a fix to daca. the problem is, there s not a majority of the majority to do that. if we got rid of those rules, i think you could do some bipartisan work. but the problem is, and the congressman knows this better than i do, that the moment speaker ryan tried to do that, would he in fact not incur the wrath of the freedom caucus and would he not in fact put his speakership in jeopardy. i think he would be a hero to the american people and would be outraged if republicans said that. by the way, who s going to take his place? i mean, who? who would be foolish enough to take his place if the requirement is, you can only get something done if all republicans in the conference agree? that s just designed to fail. he didn t want that job
democrats right now in the house together to sort of come up with a fix to daca. the problem is, there s not a majority of the majority to do that. if we got rid of those rules, i think you could do some bipartisan work. but the problem is, and the congressman knows this better than i do, that the moment speaker ryan tried to do that, would he in fact not incur the wrath of the freedom caucus and put his speakership in jeopardy. i think he would be a hero to the american people and would be outraged if republicans said that. by the way, who s going to take his place? i mean, who? who would be foolish enough to take his place if the requirement is, you can only get something done if all republicans in the conference agree? that s just designed to fail. he didn t want that job either. remember, he reluctantly took that job. that is absolutely right.