Speaker is ancient history. Its a day old. Ancient history, that he is not mad at the speaker. Hes pleased with the outcome. There will be a vote friday on the 9 billion for the Flood Insurance program and on january 15th on the 51 billion. But lets get to the larger question. Is there some sort of split in the republican party, something weve sort of seen signs of over this entire fiscal cliff debate . Well, i think it would be too simplistic to say there is a split. There are definitely those that are more pragmatic than others, as there is in the Democratic Party as well, but when youre the party that controls the white house, you have to fall in line. The republicans are a little out in the wilderness. They only control 1 3 of the three parts of government and they feel like theyre being ganged up on, so to speak, the fiscal cliff and then you have some pork stuff you just mentioned in your leadin they want to tracy and then youve got this debt extension coming up in february which
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