people are fanatical. they need to be restrained. and someone in the republican party has to talk reason into them. and if it isn t ralph, if he s going to applaud them, who is going to stand up against them? ralph? well, i think the problem with that analysis, andrew, is that the legislative system itself is broken. the united states senate has not produced a budget in three years. and we ve got a situation where the house has passed varying measures to deal with obama care that even if you don t take the position that i do, which is that it should be repealed and left on the ash heap of history, and i think we will ultimately be vindicated in that position by the way. but even if you re not in that camp, even if you re in a mend it don t end it camp, there were numerous attempts by the house to send that over and reid simply stripped that stuff out. harry reid the majority leader would not allow it to come to a vote. and the result is that we re
things to watch has been how senator cruz has talked about the shutdown as if he had nothing to do with it. listen. i don t think we should have a government shutdown. why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial? harry reid and president obama want a shutdown. why did the federal government spend money to erect barricade to keep people out of mt. rushmore? i don t think we should be in a shutdown. throughout the course of it i have said we should not shut down the government. our veterans should be above politics. enough games! enough games, he says. another common refrain by the senator is that he s only been doing what his constituents in texas really want. a little bit ago i went to the source and talked to two texans about it, former house majority leader tom delay and columnist mark mckinnon cofounder of no labels. and senior advisor to george bush. senator, from your standpoint
condemning the result of it. you ve got to admit, these people are fanatical. they need to be restrained. and someone in the republican party has to talk reason into them. and if it isn t ralph, if he s going to applaud them, who is going to stand up against them? ralph? well, i think the problem with that analysis, andrew, is that the legislative system itself is broken. the united states senate has not produced a budget in three years. and we ve got a situation where the house has passed varying measures to deal with obama care that even if you don t take the position that i do, which is that it should be repealed and left on the ash heap of history, and i think we will ultimately be vindicated in that position by the way. but even if you re not in that camp, even if you re in a mend it don t end it camp, there were numerous attempts by the house to send that over and reid simply stripped that stuff out. harry reid the majority leader would not allow it to come to a vote. and the
credit for what has happened in washington for the past several weeks. he led the republican effort to inject the defunding of obama care into the budget battle. one of the more interesting things to watch has been how senator cruz has talked about the shutdown as if he had nothing to do with it. listen. i don t think we should have a government shutdown. why is the federal government spending money to erect barricades to keep veterans out of this memorial? harry reid and president obama want a shutdown. why did the federal government spend money to erect barricade to keep people out of mt. rushmore? i don t think we should be in a shutdown. throughout the course of it i have said we should not shut down the government. our veterans should be above politics. enough games! enough games, he says. another common refrain by the senator is that he s only been doing what his constituents in texas really want. a little bit ago i went to the source and talked to two texans about
not get into the battle, then we wouldn t be here today. that is a loser s plan. so you say shut down the government again, let s do it all again but this time just stick to it? if that s what it takes to stand on principle and win, yes. absolutely. mark, does that make any sense to you? i see it as clawing your way to the bottom. i don t think it makes any sense at all. i think we saw where it got us this time. i think we should adopt a different approach. well, mark, i hate to tell you that, but my way won for 12 years. we did some pretty amazing things with five margins fighting against really all odds. but we won. your way we lose all the time. but congressman, it does sound like you re painting what just occurred here as a victory. i mean, do a lot of people you talk to see it that way? i don t see it as a victory. i see it as a great fight. and finally we ve got some