Disappearing act on guns. And a preview of tomorrows nra news conference. And righties have their bogus war on christmas. Santa, if you will, i understand you dont like to say happy holidays. Why . Tonight, ill tell you about the real war on christmas and the people who stand to suffer for it. Good to have you with us tonight, folks. Thanks for watching. Tonight Washington Republicans are wasting our time. Republicans are supposed to vote on John Boehners infamous plan b at this hour. The house is in recess as Republican Leaders basically are scrambling to get all the votes. House Speaker John Boehner pushed for a vote on the bill even though it has no chance of surviving in the senate. It would be veet 0ed by the president if it did. Boehners plan b. It makes tax increases permanent for income above 1 million. Compared to the white house plan, basically, folks, its a joke. President obama proposed a 2. 5 trillion package. 1. 2 trillion would come from spending cuts. 1. 3 trillion woul
very much in doubt. michael, your thoughts. what happened to boehner tonight? just what steve said. i also doubt his future as spakership pretty seriously. but look, ed, the main thing here, let s not lose focus. the main thing is what the republican harty has just done to the country. these people aren t legislators. they re vandals. this is really outrageous. barack obama moved and moved and moved, you chronicled his steps very well at the top of the show, the changes he made in his approach, the steps he took to go meet boehner halfway, at least halfway. his balance of tax revenues and spending cuts. boehner also, to his mild credit, at the end of last week, boehner also moved a little bit. but then after he moved obviously his caucus came to him and said no, buddy, no way, we re not going to sit for this. and then he tried this gambit, this plan b gambit. and they said no even to that. they re not legislating. they don t care about the country. they don t care about what happen
majority leader eric cantor and i would assume we might hear something within the hour from the white house. share your thoughts with us on twitter and on facebook. we want to know what you think. democratic leader nancy pelosi calls john boehner s bill the bills to nowhere. boy, was she right. boehner didn t have the votes. what will the democratic strategy be now? congressman elijah cummings and john garamendi will be with us. we re coming right back. coming up next on the ed show, i ll ask congressman elijah cummings and john garamendi how the democrats proceed after tonight s disaster for republicans. plus, all the political fallout with steve ben nan and michael tamaski. and we ll hear from eric cantor next np share your thoughts with us on facebook and on twitter using the hashtag edshow. we re coming right back. welcome back to the ed show. thanks for joining us tonight. speaker john boehner didn t have the votes for his own plan b this evening. boehner was desperately t
for newsweek and the daily beast. well, gentlemen, we ve had a lot unfold here over the last half hour. john boehner may be one of the weakest speakers of the house ever. he could not get votes tonight to put behind the plan that he put forward, which tells me he must not know his caucus very well, or he certainly has underestimated the revolt that s taken place over on the right wing. steve, what do you make of what unfolded tonight? how damaging is this to the whole process? well, it s certainly a fiasco for the speaker. we re reminded right now that he s a leader without followers. and a leader without followers is pretty much useless. he s going to have to pick up the pieces very quickly, going back to the president, trying to find out some kind of plan c. also keep in mind there s two weeks left until his re-election as speaker. i no longer think that s a sure thing. i think this is such a fiasco that his future as speaker is
see him isolated and alienated even more. here is majority leader eric cantor right after the decision was made that was going to be no vote tonight. here it is. is there going to be a vote today? no. no vote today? no. will there be a vote tomorrow? no. are you ditching plan b? are there be a vote today? no. michael tomasky, the leader of the house, majority leader, speechless. what do you make of that? it was interesting. the question you asked cummings and garamendi in the previous segment, how hard eric cantor really worked for this. i pictured him maybe as being like mitt romney s pollster. the guy who told romney don t worry, you ve got new hampshire in the bag and all that stuff. cantor may be feeding boehner bad numbers because cantor of course has his eye on the speaker s chair. and as steve mentioned, that vote is going to happen on january 3rd. and that vote is now very much up in the air. so they put up a united front