there are to be exact 99 counties in iowa. now a few weeks after that interview, sweitzer is knocking some of them off that bucket list, beginning with pollk county outside des moines rns he featured an address at an iowa holiday party granted a would be presidential candidate making the rounds in iowa or caucus state is standard. there is a key difference in what he is doing. if you look at the other potential candidates say maryland governor martin o malley. he is making it clear he wants to run for president and is taking the necessary steps to do so. he is making it clear he will only go and run if hillary clinton doesn t. this is the dilemma of most presidential candidates. they are very interested in running and in being president. they have showing absolutely no interest in running against
near catastrophe, will it be smooth sailing this time based on these, some are saying, tow, republicans are still talking like a party that sees a debt ceiling hike as a bargaining tool, not an obligation. i doubt if the ougs house or for that matter the senate is willing to give the pretty a clean debt ceiling increase. every time the president asks us to raise the debt ceiling, it s a good time for to us achieve something important for the country. i hear that, john, here we go again. that was what was behind the paralysis this past fall the summer of 2011, attaching a list of demand to the debt ceiling. is that something, do you think republicans are actually going to go down that road again or are those republican politicians trying to apasadena their base for the moment and not actually go through with it? no, i think they willf i think republicans don t know what they want. ted cruz wants to fight over obama care.
unemployment insurance is just is a disservice to people. so do we have a sense, john, within the republican ranks on capitol hill how much of that sort of libertarian view that congressman nather is describing, the rand paul view, how prevalent is that versus how many republicans are willing to in sort of the classical sense negotiate over there and come up with some sort of a deal? i think the libertarian wing will take a broader hold within the party with folks like rand paul and others in the last couple of years have sort of set that stage for that. i think that there are plenty of republicans that would be willing to deal. when democrats agreed two years ago to offset the unemployment insurance, that set a precedent that republicans no longer feel that they have to be in on that anymore. in the pennsylvania, they will say fine, we will do it in emergency. now they feel they can hold that line. they re not feeling pressure
the senate. there are a lot that said absolutely not to the path of citizenship. maybe a piecemeal ideas. when you look at this when you look at what happened to your party with latino voters in 2012, you look at the population clang in this country. where do you think republicans should be on passing a path to citizenship in this comprehensive approach, be a priority in the house in 2014. there are so many important crucial elements for the economy for our workers, for our industries and agriculture in this aside from the fundamental issues of compassion that i think republicans are going to be sympathetic to the speakers, i think the speakers going to start taking the lead on the immigration bill based on certain staff hires he s made.