first, reading from the front page of the new york times. the facts are still in dispute about a bitter he said, she said case. a supreme court confirmation drama unfolding but lawmakers are being accused of a lack of sensitivity and some prominent politicians are saying hey, what s the rush? we need a little more time to follow up on the accusations and allegations. all of this playing out in washington, a city where men have always made the rules and the senate is an overwhelmingly male club. this case is sending what one expert called an electric current of anger through women and a greater conviction women must be represented in high places in greater numbers. all of that from the new york times from the fall of 1991. days before another senate confirmation hearing. the title of the story by the way was my maureen doud. the title was the senate and sexism. it was about the male club was
i cannot sell this to my caucus. so there was a little bit of a movement there to try and maybe get a three-week extension, but chuck schumer told the republicans, i can t sell that. it goes to show you that conversations are still going on. people are skeptical that something could happen in the next hour, but clearly people are trying, and that should be encouraging if you care about the government shutting down at midnight. i have it here. it says lindsey graham offered a compromise idea calling for a continuing resolution through february 8th. again, this was before the vote. he said in a statement, i believe we will need a cr that runs past the week of the state of the union. they wanted to get it done so that if this does go long, the president s not standing there saying the state of the union is shut down. i m sure that was one reason. again, it was they wanted three weeks in order to keep the government funded and open. david, your reaction to what we re seeing right now on
irs. anybody want to fire some irs agents? why don t we start with the 16,000 irs agents that are going to implement obama care? i think we ought to abolish the irs and instead move to a simple flat tax. that s the political party this morning was floating the idea of increasing the intrusiveness of the irs into people s income. now we know the ransom note was paired back even further. all of this pain and misery and cost and drama, the whole thing just so we can get a health pay cut for our staffs. joining me now is former senator blanch lincoln, former governor of arkansas, is the principal of lincoln policies saying that lobbyists on behalf of and the just launched no more about washingtonpost.com. tim carney, i will begin with a little bit of rare praise for
can they filibuster, for instance? that s a great question. we are at a point in the process where we need unanimous content to the process. we need all 100 senators to agree to an expedited time frame. if we start a bill being presented on the floor ted cruz and mike lee have to make a decision like speaker boehner has to make that they re finally going to put their ideology back in their suitcase and allow a vote to happen. i think ted cruz stopped the process of moving forward in an expeditious manner and dealt with the consequences to the economy, that likely would be taking it even too far for him. we will find out tomorrow in the next chapter of this bizarre and terrifying unfolding drama. senator chris murphy. thank you so much. joining us now senator john tester, democrat from montana and senator one of the things i have seen play out in these two
taking it even too far for him. we will find out tomorrow in the next chapter of this bizarre and terrifying unfolding drama. senator chris murphy. thank you so much. joining us now senator john tester, democrat from montana and senator one of the things i have seen play out in these two weeks is that there was a strategic assumption on the part of republicans that if they could hold the line, they would force democrats in the house and more likely in the senate from red states, from states that mitt romney won to come over to their side, to look to compromise, to look to do things to obama care, to delay it, to muck with it in certain ways. that didn t happen, you re one of those people, you re a democrat that represents one of the states that mitt romney won,