what is he reeling? i heard it s a phony filibuster. i heard it called that. the fact we will vote at 1:00. he worked out an arrangement across the field then. would you guys vote while you are talking? i m confused how does that work. the debate will enat noon. we re scheduled to vote at 1:00. is it a filibuster. no, it s not a filibuster. look, he feels passioned about this. i understand that. he wants to get a message out there. a show of passion. instead of focusing on what politically makes sense, which is these democrats who now are going to have to cast a vote again for the worst piece of legislation and that i have seen in my 20 years here, all the focus is on ted cruz. going to speak.
which is to defund obamacare which the house cr bill does. a lot of republicans in washington are saying why would we filibuster, chris matthews, they are asking, why would we filibuster a bill that does exactly what you told us to do? i know, it s a complicated situation. it s not that complicated. it s really. he wants to get the 60-vote threshold for every single amendment. that s what he is trying to get done here here. he s going to get a 51 vote flesh hold and the senate vote will bass. so what is he doing right now? well, everybody wants to be jimmy stewart. that s jimmy stewart? hitler loved that movie. but it s just, everybody wants to be tony stewart the man against the millions the man against the establishment. but we all know this country is balkanized about political
this sort of play is a quick starter and it s a poor finisher. it s a day trade. you look at how he s taken the republican party and turned it in on itself, on the one issue that has united them and is responsible for their gains in congress in 2010 for retaking the house, that s obamacare. that one issue. now they re fighting over it. the house passed. who is wanted? they passed exactly what he wanted. the house representatives. he is using techniques to ultimately block, you know, a simple vote on stripping it of obamacare. right? he s using some of the tools of the senate. he s not really opposed with the house. this isn t even a filibuster. by the way, he can raise the closure level, right, if he makes every amendment paps for 60 bucks. but he can t. you forget how the success, even when they didn t get it passed the clinton, they tried, mightily. because of other people like
he s doing as he s doing it. the only problem with all of this is that he is, he should be expediting the inevitable. he should be, but he s not. let chambliss vote on his bill. everybody knows that i will send a clean bill to the zblous on america s bill. to defund don t try that. anyway, when he gets to the house, it will have a clean bill. then the question is, what is boehner going to do? i kind of think what boehner is probably going to do is come up with some other gimmick. it all depends on the tea party who want to basically shut down the government. can i ask you guys a question? yeah. what if boehner attaches a provision that actually makes congress live by the same rules on obamacare the rest of us have to live by? would you guys support that and get rid of the exemption for capitol hill? it doesn t bother me so much for the members of congress.
come on. black tennis chews. when i was 13 years old, i flew to england with strom thurman who just made his record filibuster. terrifying thought. i upgraded may parents about this. but that was a filibuster. that was a real filibuster. on the floor or on the plane? no, no, but 24 hours for a real filibuster that was there. this is just a kid trying to get publicity in texas. not a filibuster because it has no chance of delaying the vote. that didn t stop ted cruz from making serious allegations against obama care. . you go to the 1940s, nazi