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that s clearly not working. those ten democrats may be representing millions in america. i think the delay gives the president a bailout. giving him more time to get it going. you think we should let it fail. let it go. then he avoids another election where the american people talk about theory and not implementation. i think it is not in his d.n.a. to say the republicans were right. they were right all along. that is what the whole government slimdown senate shutdown was about. you ve got to at least delay it. of course they wanted to defund it. what s interesting about what is going on in kentucky is it looks to some as if obamacare really is medicaid. and if you re on medicaid, you know that oftentimes it is very, very hard to find a doctor. so is that the future? if that s the future, it s not what we you said maybe the president, it s not in his d.n.a. listen to one senate democrat, joe manchin, on
political writer for the washington post. john, virginia is in a bit of a political position to field the philosophies. it was hammered by the shutdown and also felt the sting of mr. cuccinelli s koeshl agenda against gay rights, climate change, women i could go on. what do you think it will cost the gop come 2016? if terry mccullough looks like he s going to do around ten points ahead? right, and becomes governor, it certainly puts the state in play as a place where democrats can add it and keep it in the win column. i mean, what the republicans did with the shutdown, i think, was horrible for their electoral chances. they needed settle there is a slimdown, john. a slimdown, thank you. but it was a shutdown. a ted cruz-inspired shutdown. and all those people who live in northern virginia, urbanized northern virginia, gives them an incentive to come out and vote,
we ll be talking about it because it ll go right up to the last minute, last second. here s the underlying rule. we can t solve problems in this country unless we turn them into a crisis. we have to manufacture crises in order to deal with issues. that s the only way policies get done here. your headline, john? bill is right. it s sad. washington spins its wheels yet again. what do you think happens? how does this play out? we ll have three or four more days of argument and posturing. and the government will reopen and there ll be some concessions made to republican concerns. whether or not obama care is part of that, i don t know. it shouldn t be a part of it. what s going to be interesting, also, we talk about thursday. if you look at the sheer timetable of this thing, let s say the senate gets something done on tuesday. it does not leave the 435 members of the house a great deal of time to go back and forth. 85% of the government is open and functioning as normal. th
just a few hours from now, president obama will meet with at least 18 key republicans on day ten of the senate slimdown. also today, house republicans will hold their own closed door meeting and there is talk that they may put a short-term debt ceiling bill on the table. this in order to buy time before our government defaults on october 17th. we ll keep you posted on that. new overnight, the father of nsa leaker edward snowden landed in moscow a short while ago. he plans to see his son for the first time since he spilled state secrets and fled america for asylum in russia. he s not revealing when or where he s meeting with his son. his son faces espionage charges in the united states. a million dollars norman rockwell painting swiped from a storage facility. this work is titled sport and it was just about to be shipped to a new owner. that s when workers at the new york storage facility realized it had been stolen. it s a 1939 oil painting and it shows a fisherman in a yellow