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instead they came look the affair and began bombing the house republicans our own troops. there it is, ted cruz almost issuing a call for the republicans to challenge some. bubble back up, the question is how ugly will it get? the monday gaggle. jonathan is president with the karl rove there group, founded group. that trying to help establishment republicans. center for america progress president, and dan. jonathan, i want to start with you. whatever that means they days. respond to ted chris, guys that you have helped try to elect were like the air force bombing their own house republican really it s hyperbole?
ushered in the tea party era. we ll see what our gaggle things of this. let s bring in our monday gaggle. ron, if people recall at the time the idea of recalling gray davis was something a burcnch o conservatives were fired up about, darrell issa has funding the campaign at the time. he was a little known republican activist out in california at the time, the elites of the republican party have said this is a stupid idea. this is wasting time. this is going to blow back on the republican party. and the elites were kind of right, weren t they? they were. the elites were right. the tea party got what they wanted. they recalled gray davis. what did they get in turn? a very moderate republican governor. i haven t given a lot of thought to it, but i think it was the first sign of the grassroots using the anger and the powers of the modern age. i think we ve become more polarized and more em bauempow since then. that success, m.j. look,
chuck? you have been a veteran covering many shut down crisis. let s bring in the monday gaggle. joining me now, editor at the grio and the washington post and usa today. susan, i feel like you and i are here we go again. i think we heard them make the point when he said republicans had a stronger hand in 1995. the president at the time was in a weaker position and republicans still got slaughtered in the political fight. democrats were about to win the house with the fund-raising scandal. this ratcheted that back. the entire political landscape and republicans turned upside down. how do they think they will win this? i remember that and the white house was not convinced they would win the politics. they were not nervous about it and they won it like you
unfortunately, the senator has accused this government of working to grow this government. he touted his conservative credentials. i ll continue to be lindsey graham, a solid fiscal and social conservative who wants to solve problems. i think that s the future of the republican party. so with the gop hoping to win back the senate in 2014, let s bring in our monday gaggle. former chief of the u.s. office of citizenship for president bush alfonzo aguilar. director of the caucus angela rye. and of course the director dan boies. this is two members of your party, you re watching here, you know, mcconnell getting squeezed, left and right. graham, right now, squeezed from the right. just a simple question, who