One of the prognosticators on this, wasserman said this opens the way for about 80 seats to be in play for the democrats in the next election year. As far as some of the enthusiasm in my caucus, i always listen to my members, i respect the ambition that exists in any caucus. Its a part of our life. I am proud of the unity we have had and my leadership in terms of keeping everybody together and fighting the Health Care Bill and the house of representatives, very proud of our success in defeating it the first time, moving them to the right to a place that i think is unsustainable, but defines who they are very clearly. Im proud of our unity, which gave me leverage to succeed enormously in the negotiations on the bill. When it comes to the issues, we are united in terms of our concern for americas working families. Thats what unifies us. When it comes to ambition and having fun on tv, have your fun. I love the arena. I thrive on competition and i welcome the discussion but i am honored by
Down for us, but first, lets set the stage for the discussion. If the government remains partially shutdown, the president spent the morning as he often does tweeting in a fourpart message that he threat enned to close the southern border and scrap nafta and cut off aid to guatemala and el salvador and that is by 8 00 a. M. , and he is preaching to the the choir, because the congress has gone home with no plan to end the shutdown in view. Hans nichols at the white house, and Garrett Haake at capitol hill. And now, hans, it seems that i are trying to give up on the 5 billion demand. What are you hearing . They rare not going to get te 5 billion, and they are going back and forth with the negotiations. They have not indicated what the number is, but they have come down. So while there is softening there, but at is same time they are hardening the decision of entire entirely shutting down the border. It is new, and a new element into the discussion about tying the open of the border to th
A judge has ruled a man will remain held without bond after he allegedly committed an arson fire in Lakewood while out on bond for crashing into a Crystal Lake house, critically injuring a resident.