limit with the cr, to get a compromise for the deal. and earlier today, speaker boehner met with several republicans in his office and talked about his potential grand bargain. so we were just talking about the weakness he has, the basic lack of trust, and the conservative in the house. we think back to the last grand bargain negotiation in 2011 where at the end of the day, john boehner had to sort of walk away from it because he did not have that support from his own members, presumably, this would involve if this is real, something republicans pursue, and the democrats at least would entertain, this would entail real negotiations between the two parties, is the john boehner we were just describing, the john boehner you were telling ezra klein all about, is does he have the support to negotiate with the democrats? i don t think he has that much support, but he has the ambition to seek a grand bargain, this is the john boehner of the fiscal cliff,
we had speaker boehner go to the white house at 5:30. and according to both my republican and democratic sources, speaker boehner floated a grand bargain of sorts, something to combine the debt limit with the cr, to get a compromise for the deal. and earlier today, speaker boehner met with several republicans in his office and talked about his potential grand bargain. so we were just talking about the weakness he has, the basic lack of trust, and the conservative in the house. we think back to the last grand bargain negotiation in 2011 where at the end of the day, john boehner had to sort of walk away from it because he did not have that support from his own members, presumably, this would involve if this is real, something republicans pursue, and the democrats at least would entertain, this would entail
that the defense industry hates, that advocates for the poor hate, that economists hate because you re going to cut wildly, some say, defense, cut wildly these programs for the poor, and slow down the economy when we re already in negative growth. so how do they not i just i can t get it through my head. how do they not get together and fix this? it seems like that s the only option. you re asking the right question. part of the answer is last week harry reid and speaker boehner met, i understand, and harry reid, the democratic leader in the senate, majority leader, said, look, let s postpone this for a year and literally said to john boehner, you can t let this moment go by. i don t think boehner wants to let it go by, but he took a real
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