trying to push boehner aside right after the elections and maybe make a deal with cantor, who knows. nonethele nonetheless, pushing boehner aside. how realistic is that and before you answer, i want to play something from greg walden who heads up the republican campaign committee on the house side. nobody works harder to maintain and grow our majority. he has the toughest job in washington walks. i think he will great get reelected. you will say speaker boehner is in a stronger position than he was, say, two years ago. the big change in that dynamic will be if republicans take the senate in november, i think the voices that want a more confrontational approach will be will gain strength inside the republican caucus and i thank you would create a new lane of threat for him. i think for me, you look at this, it s really part part and partial of what you are seeing laying out larger in the republican party and among conservatives. i think you do, in your party have a revolt from
popularity rating of the party is going to tank. i was going to say can it go any further? if they use it. it is sort of a nuclear option of leverage, the debt ceiling. how interesting, too, that we re seeing this sort of split between the conservative movement type here in d.c. and members of congress themselves. and the new york times today talks about the meeting up on the hill where boehner has so much support. right. among his own conference and yet you talk to heritage or club for growth or anybody like that and they ll say we don t want a deal. they re getting to the point where they don t want a deal. but wait a minute. there is a third group. look at bobby jindal. how about what jindal said? who is no moderate. let s not pretend the guy tries to say he is a moderate and he said hum. apparently the republican position is protect the rich to cut old people. right. exactly. so you re finding everyone now squeezing in their message and trying to push boehner in a d
of the little guy they are on the side of the corporate interests. most interesting this gamble he took by trying to drive a wedge between speaker boehner and the matter by saying boehner was with me. he wants to go my way. does that push boehner further right? we ll see. bret: good question, thank you ed. we ve heard from the president. the last time a rival party responded live to a presidential address besides the state of the union was a speech by president george w. bush on iraq and a response by democratic senator jack reed from rhode island. four years later the topic the debt crisis. the response, house speaker john boehner. good eve evening i m john boehner. these are difficult times in the life of our nation. millions are looking for work and have been for sometime. the spending binge going on in washington is a big part of the reason why. before i served in congress, i ran a small business in ohio. i was amazed at how different
the side of the corporate interests. most interesting this gamble he took by trying to drive a wedge between speaker boehner and the matter by saying boehner was with me. he wants to go my way. does that push boehner further right? we ll see. bret: good question, thank you ed. we ve heard from the president. the last time a rival party responded live to a presidential address besides the state of the union was a speech by president george w. bush on iraq and a response by democratic senator jack reed from rhode island. four years later the topic the debt crisis. the response, house speaker john boehner. good eve evening i m john boehner. these are difficult times in the life of our nation. millions are looking for work and have been for sometime. the spending binge going on in washington is a big part of the reason why. before i served in congress, i ran a small business in ohio. i was amazed at how different
the side of the corporate interests. most interesting this gamble he took by trying to drive a wedge between speaker boehner and the matter by saying boehner was with me. he wants to go my way. does that push boehner further right? we ll see. bret: good question, thank you ed. we ve heard from the president. the last time a rival party responded live to a presidential address besides the state of the union was a speech by president george w. bush on iraq and a response by democratic senator jack reed from rhode island. four years later the topic the debt crisis. the response, house speaker john boehner. good eve evening i m john boehner. these are difficult times in the life of our nation. millions are looking for work and have been for sometime. the spending binge going on in washington is a big part of the reason why. before i served in congress, i ran a small business in ohio. i was amazed at how different