payroll tax cut extension is over. for those of you playing at home, it is president obama, 1, house republicans, 0. now, here is how house speaker john boehner who wanted to take the compromise deal last week, started the day. the house passed the bill that would extend these policies for a year and it just kicked the can down the road, oh, my goodness, we are getting close to christmas is not the right thing for the american people. and here is where boehner ended up. senator reid and i have reached an agreement on payroll tax relief on behalf of the american people. key parts of this agreement are that on january 1st no american work letter see an increase in their taxes. we will ensure that a new complex reporting burden is not unintentionally imposed on small business. we will ask the house and senate to approve this agreement by
you have seen of john boehner because eric cap thor is busy driving the knife into john boehner s back. eric captor has sort of taken himself to be the representative of the rowdy tea party caucus and the thorn in bainers a side every time he has a grand bar gape. your point about gingrich v romney, we talked about this on the show, this is part of the larger cleave in the republican party, a group of very archconservative, deficit above all else, incredibly right-wing republicans against the establishment and that s exactly what you see in the capped dash so i was newt gingrich and mitt romney and the split in their supporters. now, richard, if we were to ask boehner and someone did whether or not he caved, here s what he said. sometimes it s politically difficult do the right thing. may not have about politically the smartest thing in the world but i m going to tell you what, i think our members waged through a good fight, we were able to come to an agreement, able to fix what wh
on now. it looks like we now have a deal. here s what boehner said when asked if he had the votes. do you have assurances from your conference nobody will object to unanimous consent on the house side? do you have everybody on your line? you know that but our goal is to oh. yeah. it doesn t feel very con vision. you could almost see his fingers and toes crossed, i hope i do i really can t have any more egg on my face. just information if the house doesn t pass this, it will cost american taxpayers $4 million to fly the house back again to have another vote, assuming tomorrow s vote fails. you have got to assume that there is some kind of accord in the house they can pass this literally, john boehner s speakership has been under yet entire year in terms of rounding up his caucus together. this has been the most
driving the knife into john boehner s back. eric captor has sort of taken himself to be the representative of the rowdy tea party caucus and the thorn in bainers a side every time he has a grand bar gape. your point about gingrich v romney, we talked about this on the show, this is part of the larger cleave in the republican party, a group of very archconservative, deficit above all else, incredibly right-wing republicans against the establishment and that s exactly what you see in the capped dash so i was newt gingrich and mitt romney and the split in their supporters. now, richard, if we were to ask boehner and someone did whether or not he caved, here s what he said. sometimes it s politically difficult do the right thing. may not have about politically the smartest thing in the world but i m going to tell you what, i think our members waged through a good fight, we were able to come to an agreement, able to fix what what came out of the senate. am i am i crazy or is this
deal. here s what boehner said when asked if he had the votes. do you have assurances from your conference nobody will object to unanimous consent on the house side? do you have everybody on your line? you know that but our goal is to oh. yeah. it doesn t feel very con vision. you could almost see his fingers and toes crossed, i hope i do i really can t have any more egg on my face. just information if the house doesn t pass this, it will cost american taxpayers $4 million to fly the house back again to have another vote, assuming tomorrow s vote fails. you have got to assume that there is some kind of accord in the house they can pass this literally, john boehner s speakership has been under yet entire year in terms of rounding up his caucus together. this has been the most pronounced split. not only a split between house