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conservatives everywhere need to understand that the party s leadership has declared war on them. if they don t fight back, they will always regret it. we re going to hang together or hang separately. let me bring in our company, politico senior congressional reporter manu raju and ruth marcus is with us as well. good morning. good morning. i think john boehner, manu, was pretty angry. it was a little like he s finally it with. is that what s going on here? yeah, i think there was a lot of frustration from boehner on how these groups were able to influence his members during the government shutdown. remember, that effort really was driven by the house conservatives who wanted to attach the obama care, anti-obama care language to keep the government operating. boehner went along with it. even though he didn t think it was the best strategy, he agreed with it, but he knows that those groups have a really outsized
this bill to oppose, to recognize a deficit reduction how does this raise taxes? because he will argue to you that this does not raise taxes. if you fly on an airplane, you re going to pay more to washington. they like to call it a revenue, not a tax increase. one thing i did talk about is that it changes the rules and allows harry reid to push through a tax increase with only 51 votes. i just discovered this an hour ago. it s hidden deep in the bill. i think there s you re going to see a lot of opposition coming out of the senate about this proposal. i don t know why they stuck it in there lr, just to make it ear to raise taxes in the senate. that s conservative and most americans don t want a tax increase either. john boehner says the opposition is really coming from outside groups who are influencing those of you on the inside. you may have heard his comments just a moment ago. but he did say they re using our members and using the american people for their own goals, and
be about this, ruth. we should mention in the midst of all this, the chairman of the republican study committee, steve ska leacalise fired the p in charge of the people who oppose this deal. you wonder what s going on in the macro as well as the micro on capitol hill. right. those kind of inside fight leaking stories are always really delicious. but you know, it s no surprise that the groups work hand and glove with leadership, sometimes with leadership, sometimes perhaps against the wishes of some in the leadership. but i think the fundamental point that the grown-ups in the republican party, the people with a grip on reality are reasserting themselves and taking back the power is the really important takeaway from this episode. well, the grown-ups are always supposed to be in the senate, right? and manu, they pulled an all-nighter last night voting on nominationses. there are 11 presidential nominations they want to get to.
bank rolling of elections going snow shower here to break it down is justin wilson from the center of union facts. justin, good morning, thanks for joining us? good morning, my pleasure. for the past several years, the line from the white house has been the supreme court decision on campaign finance allows big biopsy to buy elections. i think most people think that the majority of money spent by outside groups comes from big business. that s not the case though. you know. it s such an easy narrative to tell that story and we hear it time and time again. what people haven t been reporting is that labor unions, being faced with near extension are resurgent and they are almost spending themselves out of existence if only so they can actually have some gain in terms of their long-term existence. what we have seen is that they have invested more heavily in state and local elections because they ultimately have an outside influence. whether it s a city council race or state legislature
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