white house briefing room to blast house republicans, blaming them for the gridlock. and let s not play brinksmanship. the american people are weary of it. they re tired of it. minutes later, the house speak, john boehner said, no, this is the democrats fall for refusing to pass a year-long extension. the republican speaker called on the president to order senate democrats back to washington. i need the president to help out, all right? cnn is working its sources on both ends of pennsylvania avenue. chief white house correspondent jessica yellin will join us in a second. first up to capitol hill and dana bash. the president seems to think he has the upper hand here. let me ask you this from a policy perspective. the house went home after this. they think they re on the high ground. do they have a plan b? reporter: plan b is to have the republican gauche yar negotiators to have them out front and center as much as possible, in front of the cameras and put the pressu
tightening in iowa in the next week or so. he wants to be sure that two people that don t catch votes are bachmann and santorum. paul may be right and he can sneak up and knock off romney. i don t think newt has got it anymore. paul could win that. kimberly: it helps obama. eric: to have paul win? bob: oh, yeah. paul was the front runner for a while for republicans. dana: why haven t we read all day long about paul breaking the reagan commandment of not talking bad about the republicans. there should be a rule if you want to make a point and go after your opponent, going on jay leno to make a joke is not the best place. kimberly: passive aggressive perhaps. go on red eye. greg: he was on red ey
from one bill to a bill from 1944 back to an amendment. larry: now mr. generous, what does paul win. what i offered was whoever found out where the penalty was, i would come and wash their car. so they were to send me a photo of themselves, a picture of their car. larry: there is the car. what kind of a car is it, paul? it is a pickup truck. it is a nice ford f-150. that is a great truck, by the way. not an endorsement. larry: you are going to fly to portland, oregon. it is more like the next time i m in portland i m going to fly to paul s house. you think you should get on a plane? no. not this time of year. paul, i m going to come to portland and wash your car. you are the winner of this contest and live in the coolest city in this country.
but that s where you have to go from one bill to a bill from 1944 back to an amendment. larry: now, mr. generous, what does paul win? what i offered was whoever found out where the penalty was, i would come and wash their car. and so they were to send me a photo of themselves, a picture of their car. larry: there is the car. what kind of car is it, paul? it s a pickup truck. what is it a nice ford f-150. that s a great truck, by the way. not an endorsement. larry: so you are a going to fly to portland, oregon. well, the next it s more like the next time i m in portland, i m going to go over to paul s house. larry: fly out and do it the next time i m in portland. you think i should just get on the plane. oh my goodness, no. not this time of year. it s very cloudy and very rainy. not a good time to be washing cars. i am going to come to portland and wash your car for you. you are the winner of this contest, and you live in probably the coolest city in this c
so tell them exactly after you. larry: did you did you find it. where did you finally find it? well, i am segregated from the television. so i didn t see your explanation. but what i found was that the $100 fine is not actually in the health care reform bill. in fact, what the health care reform bill does is to modify some existing code, u.s. code 42. and there is a very obscure amendment in the hcr bill. i read all those subparts. okay. so it just i had to go look first, i had to find code 42. and then i had to look in there to find where there were penalties like that. larry: and the penalty is $100 a day? that s correct. you can find it on page 1,170 of title 42. but that s where you have to go from one bill to a bill from 1944 back to an amendment. larry: now, mr. generous, what does paul win? what i offered was whoever