but speaker boehner seemed to think that these outsiders should get out of his political business. one thing i know for sure, it is getting darn interesting on that side of the aisle. at the table, angela ry, political strategist and principle of impact strategies. igor bollski, managing editor at thinkprogress.org. katrina beltran with nyu. and ron christie, a contributing columnist at the daily beast and a former special assistant to president george w. bush. igor, let me ask you this, is this the end of speaker boehner s speakership or the beginning? well, i hope it s the beginning. you know, this was kind of a long time coming. you saw in 2010 when this new class was elected, boehner very frustrated on issues like the debt ceiling, all of the budget fights. he tried to make a deal with the president, with the democrats. it didn t go anywhere. i mean, issue after issue, the farm bill, comprehensive immigration reform. he tries to do something, they pull back. and so now it all kin
across the northeast. gretchen, back to you. she was not in the administration for the botched obama care roll out but all the controversy may still hurt hillary clinton. some call her the mother of obama care because her health care overhaul started in the 90s. remember. it was then hilary care. and included the individual mandate. joining us now is political editor at town hall.com. good to see you. so hilary care forerunner of obama care. will this now haunt her as she moves forward potentially to run in 2016? it could. it will be interesting to see how republicans play this line of attack and how hillary clinton herself and her squad plays defense. hilary care may feel like ancient history to a lot of voters. it was attempted at least in the early to mid- 90s. it didn t go anywhere. in many ways it was more draconian than obama care in terms of mandates on employers.
congressman, do you think this was politically timed? it s interesting. you indicate that yes the employer mandate delay will push off the implementation of that mandate until after next year s election, but again, you never know given the selective enforcement that now it seems to be a pattern with this, with the irs, with other things. but if the same formula s in place, october 1 next year will be the signup date for the exchanges again, at which time all of this will then be elevated. 30 days before the election. so it may be that the administration didn t quite accomplish what it may have hoped to accomplish politically, by saying delaying that employer mandate for a year. there have been many votes have you had to, i guess, overturn obama care. it didn t go anywhere. would you use the option of defunding obama care, because
congressman, do you think this was politically timed? it s interesting. you indicate that yes the employer mandate delay will push off the implementation of that mandate until after next year s election, but again, you never know given the selective enforcement that now it seems to be a pattern with this, with the irs, with other things. but if the same formula s in place, october 1 next year will be the signup date for the exchanges again, at which time all of this will then be elevated. 30 days before the election. so it may be that the administration didn t quite accomplish what it may have hoped to accomplish politically, by saying delaying that employer mandate for a year. there have been many votes have you had to, i guess, overturn obama care. it didn t go anywhere. would you use the option of defunding obama care, because
you know what? it passed anyway. it didn t go anywhere in the senate, but republicans control the house. and in the republican-controlled house, they passed this thing. by lots. look. by a big margin. 234-192. a party line vote. they passed their version, the house version of the jim inhofe stop law enforcement from buying bullets conspiracy theory bill. they passed it as an amendment to the funding for homeland security. so when we lament that six months after newtown, congress cannot get anything done about guns or ammunition, or our country s massive and worsening problem with mass shootings, it is wrong to lament that because the republican-controlled house of representatives can get something done on this issue. they can feed the apocalyptic paranoid from my cold dead hands war against the government conspiratorial gun nut base that they thrive on. they can feed that. that s what they can get done. and in totally unrelated news, the gallup polling organization today reported that