and, ryan, we re also seeing even the opposition to health care lose its theme among republicans. michelle bachmann s repeal bill initially couldn t even find sponsors. governor jan bruin, the latest cave on medicare expansion in arizona. and speaker boehner even calls it the law of the land. these are the people whose main goal in unseating president obama was to go after the health care act. now, they ve even weakened on that. right. and one of the key divisions within the republican party is, on the one side, you have people who recognize that the 2010 kind of tea party uprising was a momentary phenomenon. the backlash against it has effectively wiped it out. it will be around because it can be self sustaining because there s enough republican districts that you can have several dozen of these members
in the house for the foreseeable future. and the other candidate that looked at the 2012 election and said we re on the wrong side of the demographic and political shifts that are happening here. what can we do to change the course of this. but the problem is that there are a ton of republicans who are just fine with controlling the house, controlling a lot of governor s mansions, controlling the kind of consultantcy corporations. a lot of people are doing very well by this status quo. especially when the extremists have become unpopular. you know, in my rigid diet, i drink only tea now. one thing i can tell you about tea, it is delicious. but when the bag breaks, it s very, very nasty. joy reid and ryan grim, thanks for your time this evening. still ahead, republicans invoking dr. king to defend
0 and failure has captured a single word. purpose. muhammad ali was beaten in a ring but always came out back. mike tyson was beaten in the ring, beaten in life. what he stood for is anybody s guess. boxing expert teddy atlas told me about this and i hope i never forget it. he was giving me life advice. and i cannot thank him enough for everyone takes a beating now and then, and, often, because you didn t do something you should have or did something you shouldn t have or simply because you had a bad day, week or year. it s what you do then that sets people apart. look at the magnificent job hillary clinton has done in the last four years. she lost presidency in 2008 and now looks better than she ever did. she s certainly looking like a winner before senators and congressman that included the serious, the comic and, of course, the absurd. as her legions of followers like to say go girl, go. . if she performs in this campaign coming up four years from now, anything like she did toda