there s going to be too much compromise. one thing we haven t pointed out is there are institutional divisions and tensions between the house and the senate replicated between these republicans. we saw it certainly between pelosi and harry reid over the years and you have the same kind of tensions. john boehner and mitch mcconnell are not that close. i m with you. a flat out yes. she hopes to get there. i don t think she s planning to sit around and be minority leader. it s fascinating. you see the different cliques. you saw one go over to say hello to anna. there s a group of 20 that used to have dinner at an tlaul or chinese restaurant every tuesday night. i m sure they re still assembled. it s an interesting group. you never get too see the camera move. i wish it could go to the far right-hand corner and pick up that wonderful pennsylvania corner where all these regular guys sit, mostly men, with a
will signal going forward. they can peel off democrats which they believe will give them some added heft with what happens in the house, especially with 21 democrats up for re-election in 2012. that s the way they look at it. that s the way i m describing it. great job, major garrett. john, i always expect a tough assessment from you, a totally unromantic look at life in this regard. is pelosi gunning for another shot at the speakership? is that why she s sticking around? what s the word on the hill? i don t think they have a great chance of taking back the house in 2012. obviously that would be her ideal. the ideal that we have permanent shifts in politics that lasts for decades is outdated. they would have to take some pretty strong bounces in the democratic direction for them to
some people are going to have to separate themselves from its. joe, you had an interview with paul ryan this morning on morning joe, and i m wondering, when do you think they have to start getting specific? because they could talk about $35 million, but that is, you know, a drop in the bucket against their original commitment of $100 billion. now, i get that they re saying we re already in the budget year and can t do as much as they wanted. let me interrupt myself. john boehner is now being introduced by the sar jeblt of arms. stand by with us, joe. [ applause ]
how mature the outlook was from the new members and how they re going to work very hard not to repeat our same mistakes, chris, which you know we made them daily and fed into our political enemies worst instincts. what do you make of putting four new members on the rules committee to sense debate? chris, you know, it s just stunning. ifreshmen have been given. i got to say, john boehner is playing seems to be playing the card that was dealt to him very well. he s giving a lot more power to a lot more people than nancy pelosi did. i don t know if that speaks to an insecurity on his part or not. but i ve got to say, this is all, as you know, ground-breaking territory. this is not the sort of thing that newt gingrich or nancy pelosi or tip o neal would have done. would you give a closed rule to the vote on repealing health care or keep it closed?
washington. it may be the best. a lot of jobs, too. it s stunning, the suite of offices looking out across the mall. and the second thing, what day it must be for john boehner with 10 of his 11 siblings there to watch him become speak over the house. it is, politics aside, kind of an amazing story. and he s, of course, the third member from ohio to be speaker of the house, and nicholas long worth was from ohio. let s do the math. there s 61 speakerships since the republican began. there have been 5 # differe3 di speakers, which telus me in eight different cases they went back and grabbed the job again. i m looking at pelosi sitting down there properly at the desk where the minority sits next to steny. is she one thinking i may come back and reclaim the gavel?