grassroots movement is all about an independent mindset. it s not hard core right wing wackos like the liberal media wants you to believe. these are people, reagan democrats, people not registered in any party and some hard core republicans, too. those who just believe that america is not on the right track right now and they have common sense solutions in how they want to see us get back on the right track. so the positions that the tea party movement has been embracing is it s mainstream really. welcome back to morning joe. talking to the young guns. wow. they are something. so handsome. they could be on the cover of a magazine called young guns, come to washington. mika, stop that. stop that. i m sorry. i m behave. they re so cute. she s on you guys.
because i heard you a it s one of the things that excites me, you will be the first to say the republican party had a chance and we screwed up. we got fired and we deserve to be fired, right? we heard about this in your book which is we lost our way when we were in the majority. we rightfully got fired because we spent too much money. we need to own up for that and recommit ourselves to our conservative principles. we are trying to get men and women around the country to come to congress to help us not have a career in politics, but to come advance the pause of relimiting government, having a free enterprise system. we have to make sure we don t make the mistakes we made in the past if we re given the privilege of serving the majority. back in 2004 i remember writing about something you guys were doing, in 04, you were trying to push budget reform on republicans. yes. you were shocked that the republican leadership was fighting you as much as the democratic leadership. that
the delaware thing is perfect proof of that in that, if you get angry enough and you feel she s been offended, christine o donnell in delaware, that will generate enthusiasm among a specific group of people. pat, we see it time and time again, the party that s fired up wins. republicans and 66 democrats, democrats in 86. 94, 06. it goes on and on. it looks like this is the r year for that reason alone. i ve never seen such fire and energy and desire to get out and vote as you see in the party conservatives and republicans. more so that gold waut sgler maybe 1980 when you had reagan. everybody was desperate. paula hawkins and these folks swept out ten democratic senators. thank you, go get on your short shorts. are you going to run with us? no. i have to get back to politico.
tend to vote for republicans are much more enthusiastic than minority voters. older voters are more enthusiastic than younger voters. and i think you saw it in delaware. a lot of people reading delaware as a devastating blow to republicans. it probably is in delaware. i think it speaks to a very good thing for republicans in that there s so much energy right now behind republicans that i think incumbents that none of us are thinking about today are going to lose their house races because conservatives are showing up. i think the more people go on tv and bash o donnell and other people, the more fired up they get and the more likely they are to turn out in the election. it s been fascinating to watch the play after this. that is fascinating. mike, it seems like americans are saying in these polls and this politico poll, we don t like republicans, but we don t want democrats to have a monopoly. we re checking them. clearly all incumbents are endangered species this year.
flame-throwing ideological person working with somebody who is maybe a committee chairman, holding the gavel and actually has to pass a bill and work with democrats in order to do it. i think boehner is that kind of manager. he s a calm guy. he s a smooth guy. but in another sense, he s seen it all. so i think that we can make it happen. you know, when the election is over, people tend to say, o karks now get the job done. how do you get the job done. it s a little more difficult. i think we ll get there. john heilemann, news breaking yesterday that there may be a deal on taxes. barack obama talking about possibly negotiating with republicans about extending tax cuts. steny hoyer suggesting, after hearing from house democrats who were scared, they want the bush tax cuts extended maybe a year or two. does peace break out over taxes in the last month? looks like we may have peace. i don t know if it will be peace with or without honor. it seems to be moving in that