colleagues who sent the message, don t kick it over here, it s only going to create more problems. mike, from this point, who becomes more vulnerable, ryan or trump? well, you know, at this point i think it s paul ryan. he s up for re-election in a couple year, not that that will be an issue. he s have from a very conservative district. but he s in the shame shoes john baber was. a year and a half ago john boehner was pushed out by the same group of freedom caucus members. ryan swooped in, seen as the only guy with conservative chops to satisfy them. you re talking about hi speakership as opposed to being re-elected for his district. how vulnerable is he to lose his speakership? well, you know, we don t know. the apps is we don t know. there s clearly tension between him and the freedom caucus and this is the same group that pushed out boehner. so for all the talk of ryan is the guy that can unite the party, he s in the exact same
welcome back to hardball. when john baper failed to bring his so-called plan b to a vote last week because he didn t have enough republican support to pass it, the speaker advocated his role in the fiscal cliff talks. he said it was up to the u.s. senate and the white house to do something. the sad reality is that boehner is leading a dysfunctional caucus with a vocal minority of tea partiers who can hold up the chantses for any deal. today harry reid accused boehner of caring more about his re-election as speaker than getting something done. take a listen. the american people i don t think understand the house of representatives is operating without the house of representatives. it s being operated with a dictatorship of the speaker. john baber seems to care more about keeping his speakership than keeping the nation on firm financial footing. what is boehner s game plan? does he even have one? ryan grim is washington bureau chief for the huffington post and glenn johnston is
0 this afternoon senate minority leader mitch mcconnell said he wasn t willing to offer the white house a blank check just because we re on the edge of the cliff. take a look. last night i told the president we d be happy to look at whatever he proposes, but the truth is we re coming up against a hard deadline here and as i said, this is a conversation we should have had months ago. and republicans aren t about to write a blank check for anything senate democrats put forward just because we find ourselves at the edge of the cliff. well, actually it s not a blank check the president has been pushing. and this isn t a partisan statement. look at the numbers in terms of what the public thinks about what the president ran on which is to raise taxes for people who make over $250,000 a year. 47% of the country basically agrees with that, which is what he said. only 13% raise taxes for everybody. they are the real conservatives. and fiscally hawkish i would say. and 35% say no tax increas
above 8% and remained there almost ever since he did so. he said he would create 5 million jobs. he has lost 4.1 million. 7.6 million jobs gap from what he promised to what it is. he has added $5 trillion to the national debt, soon to be $6 trillion. we have the worst recovery since world war ii, the slowest pace. every of the recovery we have returned labor and employment to where it was four years hence. the recession began in 2007. in december of 2011, we are 4% below where we were when we started. the main thing is we have $99.4 trillion in unfunded liabilities. it is growing at the astronomical rate of $10 trillion a year. paul ryan and the republicans have tried to responsibly propose entitlement reforms saying if we do not do something within three years, bondholders and other experts claim we will go the way of greece. interest rates will go up. the bond markets will go south. the dollar will be the value. obama will do nothing to join the fight against entitlements e
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