i think this isn t very chuckle worthy. anyway, thank you, david corn and paul singer. i ll be in boulder, colorado, tomorrow night for the big republican debate. join me at 7:00 eastern for all the pre-game action on hardball and come back at 10:00 p.m. eastern for post-game reaction and analysis. coming up, it s not just the two republicans making news. we have big, hard evidence now that hillary clinton s good run over the last week or so is paying off at the polls. she s huge right now in iowa and her party seems to be coming together around her. i ll talk to senator sherrod brown of ohio who s just endorsed her today over bernie sanders. plus, john boehner cut that budget deal to keep the government running in part to help out his successor, paul ryan, so why is ryan trashing the whole thing? and it s tuesday, which means it s clown car day here at hardball. and today donald trump, ben carson, and good old mike huckabee are doing the driving. finally, the hardball roundt
will this thing hold together when they vote tomorrow? here s the thing. until they vote, you ll never know. we have seen time and time again, speaker boehner come up with grand plans, or put bills on the floor to have to pull them back for a lack of support. so as much as i would like to be hopeful about this budget deal and hope that it s going to go through until they start voting, i m unwilling to say if this thing will actually pass. liz mair, i m surprised that we re talking about a deal that looks like it s going to be sold and delivered and packaged in the end by democrats. there s no guarantee the republican a vast majority of republican members, who are the 247 members of the 435 in the house are going to go along with this. it s going to depend on pelosi to hold it together. that may possibly be true. and when off package that you put together that hikes spending by $80 billion, that is one of the reasons why some democrats may get more comfortable with it
that may possibly be true. and when off package that you put together that hikes spending by $80 billion, that is one of the reasons why some democrats may get more comfortable with it than some republicans. at the end of the day, there are some republicans who like ryan will be going away and taking a very close look at this. because if you look at the comment that came from senator rob portman today, his point is that it s not a great deal and looks like it doesn t deal with some of the fundamental issues we re talking about when we re talking about continued deficit spending and a continued high national debt. i think the only way you get around that, there are going to be some people who do want a debt ceiling raised without having ra big fight about it, and i think there are some potentially significant reforms to social security, medicare, and i would say from my perspective, most importantly, the crop insurance program. so i think if you have fiscal conservatives go away and l
point of view. and i think there s a real issue here, i think that heidi is right. because as a reporter, i ve observed it. but i ve also observed that hillary clinton will be a genius at what s called political sdi, strategic defense. anything that could be an attack along gender lines will be thrown back at the opponent to his or her unhappiness, right? yeah, look, it was a bit of a cheap shot on her part. reagan was gooded a this, too. some of the best lines in politics are retorts. they pretending or acting as if you re the one playing defense against someone you can portray as playing offense, who s often put you in a very popular position, as she s in right now playing defense on this thing. she knows and he knows it wasn t a remark about gender, so it was kind of a cheap shot. on the other hand, it s politics. politics is full of cheap shots. what s interesting is that bernie sanders did not seem really prepared for that kind of a knife fight. his campaign all along has be
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