makes. the fight last year over health care was an unfair partisan battle. this year this fight over wall street reform rollbacks, that s a principle stand for democrats. that s kind of the view for the white house. what s interesting is the president did get some victories in here. he got money for his health care law. he got money for those executive actions on immigration, two other big legacy items, climate change fund and early childhood education fund. that could put pressure on house speaker john boehner with conservative who is are not happy he signed off on this. the president is facing pressure from the left, but speaker boehner s going to have pressure on the right as well, sean. did anybody tell speaker boehner they just won the election and if they did a continuing resolution they would have a new majority in january? did anyone tell him that? i m curious if that came out today. it s interesting because the president was saying the opposite today. he was saying, look,
that s why our country is so threatened by this debt, because we aren t doing our job. and on top of it let s say speaker boehner taking the advice of some conservatives and i support a continuing resolution in january when they got power and they had a new majority, wouldn t they have been able to maybe bring the budget down below a trillion dollars? maybe they could have done something with energy, which would have benefitted people and created jobs in the country. maybe they could have offered their alternative to health care. maybe they could have secured the borders. maybe they could have put forward a dynamic vision for the country. and now basically that s not going to happen. here s the interesting thing. we did have something we called the sequester. and it had a $63 billion cut in all this discretionary spending and both republicans and democrats got together and abandoned that about a year ago. we passed a new budget and said we re no longer going to have these cuts
there was no 72-hour window that people could actually read what they were actually voting on. this to me was like business as usual except john boehner was in charge, not nancy pelosi. we have the same rules in the senate. we re supposed to wait a period of time. and we will breach our own rules on this because we can t seem to be the function the way we normally would function. normally you would pass 12 individual spending bills and not this huge conglomeration no one has a chance to read. so the process is so screwed up. that s why our country is so threatened by this debt, because we aren t doing our job. and on top of it let s say speaker boehner taking the advice of some conservatives and i support a continuing resolution in january when they got power and they had a new majority, wouldn t they have been able to maybe bring the budget down below a trillion dollars? maybe they could have done something with energy, which would have benefitted people and created jobs in the co
from the left, but speaker boehner s going to have pressure on the right as well, sean. did anybody tell speaker boehner they just won the election and if they did a continuing resolution they would have a new majority in january? did anyone tell him that? i m curious if that came out today. it s interesting because the president was saying the opposite today. he was saying, look, there s a new political reality for me so house democrats have to calm down because i had to cut this deal. i ve got less votes next year. the flip side of that as you say is speaker boehner s got more votes in the house next year. and the senate republicans actually haved majority, which today they don t have. they ll have that in january. they will have a stronger hand. that s why conservative eyebrows have been raised about a deal boehner cut. for the president he s facing this pressure, but he said, look, guys, he s going to have a much more difficult lame duck hand come january. so the president trie
kentucky senator rand paul with us. i referred to john boehner last night as john gruber boehner. i think he did let down. i think he would have had new majority, he only would have needed continuing resolution into the new year, i think they would have had more leverage. i think going this way and funding obamacare through the end of the year is foolish. what are your thoughts? we got a 2500-page bill, no one will have a chance to read this bill much less have it printed for everyone to read. and it s a crummy way to run your government because the bill s 2500 pages long. there will be no amendment. there will be no reforms. this is how we ve been running government for a decade. we lurch from deadline to deadline and we now have an $18 trillion debt. i m a no-vote on it because i won t get a chance to look at the entire bill before we can vote on it. so it s a crummy way to run government. that s another thing. i mean, speaker boehner said 2,000-page bills are not a good thing, t