revenue number by may 15th for the subsequent october 1st. so there could be appropriations passed all summer. then they had a second budget resolution locking it all in. they used to obey their own rules. when i say senate dysfunction, a bunch of senators four years didn t pass a budget. that s totally irresponsible. with respect theibilitiability. lets be clear. once they passed it they didn t want afraid they might do something on the debt ceiling. to what has happened in the senate, i think it is more a story of the republican party and the transformation of the republican party. becoming a house party. having the ted cruzes and marco rubio,ous groups, heritage action scoring important votes and also, you know, we don t have there are no more olympia snows, ted stephens. rules built for an earlier time when partisanship was not
table from the beginning. trying something a little higher and then negotiating towards a final solution. because i think that the moderates and the senate, olympia snows and susan collins are just going to take whatever they proposed and slice a couple hundred billion off of and it say essential they do that. i think that they left a little on the table at the beginning and i think there was a moment that the biggest thing i sort of fault them for was a moment that in the spring of 2010, we had the recession stopped and the economy rebounded and by the time we get to the spring of 2010, things start goad bad again. there is a lot of anxiety. a moment there for for some kind of big second stimulus package whether it is you know, payroll tax cut which he eventually proposed, you know, something the republicans had been on on the record supporting, and i think something big like that could have gone a long way. you do bash back calculations, $500 billion on the table, $600 bill
impainted as a rhino. i m not pure enough or accepted enough to be a republican. have you to be ex treemt one way or the other to be expected by media figures i ll be the defender of the media here. you also have redistricting, which is a create id system where you are just running over republicans or democrats it win your seat in congress. and the independent publication. also independent redistri trikting. you have the money pumped in. and the redistricting. and i think there gr people in congress. katrina, this bears listening. while you fist pump over there, i will say the house raises moderate democrats spend more than double what liberal democrats in the house progressive caucus spent. that would point to the notion that it harder to be a centrist these days than a moderate. we talk about the olympia snows,
you mentioned, chris, he is so popular now overall in massachusetts, and the republican party is so weak up there, that i would think he would survive the primary challenge. will they have more difficulty or could democrats use this to your advantage? depends on the state. you re not going to beat olympia snowe in maine or scott brown. it s good news for democrats. it s good news for us in individual senate races. if scott brown got knocked off, we would get that seat back in a minute. it s better news in the presidential race. you ve got the independent voters watching this play out. they like the scott browns. they like the olympia snows. they respect orrin hatch.
partial-birth abortions and capitol tax. so we re going get a liberal senator in illinois. a rhino again. sean: we have enough olympia snows. we need to realize this. when people are voting, especially with republicans, we need to make sure that these votes count wh. i say count, i peen, they need to be voting for republicans from what we stand for and not just what we stand against. sean: i don t want rhino republican. i m tired of the republican party self destructing because they don t stand on conservative values. i think mark kirk is strong on conservative values. he went by himself without staff. sean: stimulus? let s see how long. abortion. sean: one of eight republican autos he s got to get votes in northern chicago suburbs. we need to stick owe our platform. we do.