that specifically on this vote tomorrow will you be with john bay boehner boehner? tomorrow is like being pregnant, you are or you re not. if you vote for the continuing resolution, and it is lifted you will have voted to fund illegal and unconstitutional action. i m not going to take that rask. i cannot speak for the house members of the united states senate. let me play some new sound for you from harry reid on this debate. take a listen. we have money, terrorists a peer to have money, why should our homeland not have the ability to protect itself. what is going on in the house. we have two leaders that have not talked in two weeks. your leader speaker boehner reportedly said he had not talked to mcconnell in two weeks, which is weird, your
when they were rightly blamed for shutting down the government, republican leaders in the house openly dismissed the plan. here is member of the republican leadership tom cole on now this summer. shutting down the government is a suicidal political tactic. eventually it will be reopened, but the president will not have capitulated, and you will have discredited yourself. along the way, you would have hurt the american people. but it turns out the gop leadership wasn t prepared to contend with the radicalism of a core group within the house republican conference. fearing a revolt within his party, speaker john bay boehner has refused to vote on a bill that doesn t defund or delay the affordable care act. he s allowed more than 40 votes on futile bills stripping funding for the law. but the roots of dysfunction go even deeper. over the past 30 years, the republican party has grown increasingly detached from the ideological center. starting in 1980, republicans began a rightward lunch
this is not about him or me, about scoring points for one side or the other, name calling like the villain of villains. it s about doing the right thing for the american people. that was senate majority leader harry reid on capitol him moments ago telling reporters he spoke with speaker john boehner on the phone about the government shutdown. reid, boehner, nancy pelosi, and mitch mcconnell are all expected to meet with president obama at the white house around 5:30 p.m. today. okay. moving now to the gripping documentary let the fire burn, which chronicles the battle between philadelphia police and the black liberation group move in it resulted in the deaths of 11 people, including 5 children. 12 years in the making, the film tells a tragic tale of how paranoia and racism can turn deadly. three dozen philadelphia policemen surrounded the building after a move member was
political survival. well, the problem at this point is that there are not enough of them. whether or not that number continues to grow, i can t say. i think there s also a problem in that there is a small number of people on the very conservative side of the republican house caucus who are holding this up. remember, it only takes a small number of people to bring down a speaker. that s john boehner s concern right now. right, and the reason for that is a lot of this is not so much about policy. andrew sullivan had a great piece on the dish. he wrote that at the core this is not necessarily about the context of the policy. he writes this, the gop does not regard the president as merely wrong but as illegitimate. it s about nullifying this presidency. that s the reason you can t really get to negotiations. i think that s right. i mean, i think there s a nullification here. it s not just about the policy.
we can cut, something like that. yeah. i think a good diplomat will be able to find common ground with boehner especially on some of the deficit reduction and measures that might be taken. i think the thing to watch will be whether boehner is able to find common ground with his entire caucus on these things, whether how well this stuff goes over with the more liberal democratic caucus, except to the extent that it seems in any way a rollback or repudiation of what the administration his done in the last couple of years. guess what? they re voting. when you vote this time, you don t vote aye or nay. you vote pelosi or boehner. it s a unique vote for the house. it s concluded. john boehner has enough votes. he is the speak over the house. he will be elected. there ll be a bipartisan