in fact, today s developments were less calming and more chaotic. today, the top republican in the house, speaker john boehner, engaged in a pitch battle with his own caucus to get them on board with his debt ceiling plan. mr. boehner was forced to delay a vote on that plan that was supposed to be held today, not only so he could rework it, also it was not clear he had enough votes on his own side to pass it. the speaker reportedly told members of the caucus today get your blank in line. i can t do this job unless you re behind me. at this stage in the game, that s the plan the republicans are going with? fall in line behind john boehner s plan to raise the debt ceiling for all of six months and then we can all have this fight all over again? now, the house is planning to vote on that bill tomorrow, but even if they pass it, it s not really expected to go anywhere.
in fact, today s developments were less calming and more chaotic. today, the top republican in the house, speaker john boehner, engaged in a pitch battle with his own caucus to get them on board with his debt ceiling plan. mr. boehner was forced to delay a vote on that plan that was supposed to be held today, not only so he could rework it, also it was not clear he had enough votes on his own side to pass it. the speaker reportedly told members of the caucus today get your blank in line. i can t do this job unless you re behind me. at this stage in the game, that s the plan the republicans are going with? fall in line behind john boehner s plan to raise the debt ceiling for all of six months and then we can all have this fight all over again? now, the house is planning to vote on that bill tomorrow, but even if they pass it, it s not really expected to go anywhere.
in front of the house leadership offices. occasionally you catch people going back and forth after these whipping sessions. what are your thoughts? the argument a.b. laid out being made about is obvious one. on friday, the president lost the initiative. he overstepped, overreached, the republicans walked out. it looked as if they were on the defensive. in fact by the end of the weekend, the president was so desperate, he was dealt out. it all lit up in congress. he had to give a speech that nobody in washington even understands what was in it and why he gave it. it s all in the congress now. the republicans have the upper hand. if this would pass, it gives them the marker. the reid bill won t pass even the senate. there would be a live piece of legislation. there s no presidential plan. there will not be a senate plan. there will be a house plan. that s what you can lean on. i think if they can t get the
plans in motion if they don t get a debt deal at the oval office before tuesday. senator coburn is confident they will do that pt treasury has a plan what they could bo including who will and count get paid in the event this happens. the white house will make those available as early as tomorrow night. they would wait until the financial markets closes for the week. hopes are you heard from senate coburn we won t get to that point. nbc s mike no nickname viqueira. reporter: how are you? g. senator coburn says quite confidentially government and the president love as drama. but he believes it he get done and isn t going to look at the boehner or reid plan. thinks it won t happen. i m going to wait until tuesday and see what comes out of the blender, but they are doing triage right now in the event they cannot pay.
toization would be. so look, particularly if the boehnor plan and the reid plan are that close together in terms of how they might really hit working families, how(ase we going to bring this thing to an end, when you re looking at it, are we going to get one of these plans adopted, or is this the president invoking this plan z, this constitutional 14th amendment right to do it. is that the only way we re going to avoid the catastrophic case you suggested? i don t think the 14th amendment will work. law professors have been skeptical enough and when you re dealing with a conservative supreme court and the uncertainly of a constitutional crisis on top of a debt crisis, that s too hard a road to hoe, but i think we re going to see something between the reid and boehnor plans, the big difference is the boehnor plan forces us to raise the debt ceiling again and forces us to accept a $1.8 trillion or more in cuts from the so-called super commission, and if we don t do