people. tip o neill got along with ronald reagan. ted kennedy got along with orrin hatch. joe biden got along with john mccain. nancy pelosi got along with john boehner. ruth bader ginsburg got along with antonin scalia. all we are asking is house republicans to get along with each other. first time in 100 years there is no congress because of ambition or power grabs, dysfunction, and this is not a partisan criticism. understand this. it s embarrassing, it s dysfunctional. it s dangerous, it s stupid. those are words that republicans have used. yep, we still do not have a u.s. house of representatives as the republican deadlock enters a fourth day. we have new reporting about another potential deal in the works that could give kevin mccarthy the gavel, but no speaker, still. i mean, how many votes have there been. no speaker still. i think we re up to about ten now. willie, what great points. ruth bader ginsburg and justice scalia got along. tip o neill and ronald reagan
comes back to this point, to this house chamber where he is sitting, where he delivered those scathing words against donald trump before backing down, and he learns what everybody else in donald trump s political life has learned. that selling your soul to donald trump leaves your soul in ashes. loyalty is never returned and you always end up losing because of it. and everything kevin mccarthy has done in the two years since january 6th, beginning with that trip to marching, but to appease all of these people now who are saying they will never vote for them. looking the other way when they do reprehensible things or say racist or misogynistic or islam phobic things and never having public comment on it, looking the other way, letting it fester, letting them feel their power, letting them know they
texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave weigel. you have ken buck. i ve got to think he is voicing john mccain s private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty that s pretty widespread. i ve heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republican who gets into this mess by endorsing birtherism, david vitter did in a way and rick scott in florida did in a way. the rest of them really do think this is a distraction, and honestly, they think obama is just egging on the people by letting this issue fester, because, well, he is not really letting it fester, but letting
texas congressman ron paul, a distant second with 11% of the vote. joining me now is msnbc contributor dave wiegel. you have ken buck. i ve got to think he is voicing john mccain s private thoughts and other formerly mainstream republicans private thoughts. republicans that are now in the business of pandering to the tea partiers. how widespread is that sort of republican cynicism about the tea party? cynicism about the kind of things he was complaining about, i think, is pretty that s pretty widespread. i ve heard lots of republicans talk about this as a distraction. for every republican who gets into this mess by endorsing birtherism, david vitterer did in a way and rick scott in florida did in a way. the rest of them really do think this is a distraction, and honestly, they think obama is just egging on the people by letting this issue fester, because, well, he is not really letting it fester, but letting
because, well, he is not really letting it fester, but letting this issue to hang out there so they ll look crazy or they think it makes them look crazy. in buck s case i think he was being very savvy. the walk-back of what he was saying was more surprising to me than anything else. you know, this is what smart republicans should say. stop talking about the president s birth certificate. now, buck is complaining that he cannot get tea party audiences to pay attention to something like the national debt because they want to talk about the president s birth certificate. this starts to make me think is the mainstream media giving the tea party too much credit for being actually interested in the governance of the united states? i don t think so. i mean, i think actually jane norton comes off a bit worse here because framing it the way she did, saying that by telling people to stop obsessing over the birth certificate he was insulting tea partiers, that s kind of patronizing to tea par