barak obama from office? correct answer steve stockton of texas. no one since 1843 had been blocked from confirmation. mel block. he was blocked by the senate to be the head of the housing finance agency. that is correct. with that rush you finish with 300. martin 300. the winner tom davis, former congressman from virginia with 1,000 points. congratulations, tom, as our winner, we will tell you, bill wolf will tell you, here s what you have won. as our champion, you will have your name printed in exquisite sharpee on the coveted up against the clock gold cup. you get to show it off to friends, family and local school chin for exactly one woke. you will receive an appearance this coming week on msnbc the cycle airing weekdays 3:00 to
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0 i don t want to let the administration off the hook, oh, it s so complicated. we are three weeks in. there is obviously a window, but the window, there s still some more time here. i mean, the official date is until march 15th when before any kind of penalty from the mandate kicks in, right? and they ll probably end up extending that open enrollment date. let me say what is the issue. if you talk to health care folks, get this working by mid-november, maybe early december and you can live with it. that could be okay. the problem is you ve got to get enough young and healthy people in the exchanges. so, medical record to keep premiums at a reasonable level, you need a mix of young, healthy people and older, sick er peopl. the older, sicker people, they re going to get it. if they can t get on, they re going to go through an insurance broker and keep trying. thest the young healthy folks that are always going to be the difficulty because while some want insurance, others, it s just
now for my favorite story of the day. chad henderson was the poster boy for obama care. administration officials said this was the first to successfully enroll in a plan. turned out it wasn t true. texas conservative steve stockton wants to make sure none forget it by inviting henderson to the state of the union address. will you be able to get mr. henderson in the room? we talked to him and he accepted. he want to get him a picture with president barack obama . as you know he bought the insurance it claimed he had when in fact he had never bought it. it would have been 400% more expensive had he bought it.
0 the g.o.p. says we ll give you your debt ceiling, give yaw that increase until mid-to late november. in return for that you have to come to the table and bargain with us over the shutdown, and that may or may not include obamacare. right? that s right. and they haven t been specific to the government shutdown. a republican congressman from idaho says this morning, obamacare is still on the table. he said we re willing to give some in terms of 0 a clean raising of the debt ceiling. heritage action, one of the conservative groups which monitors house republicans and senate republicans like a hawk, says it s not in fav of a clean debt ceiling increase but is willing to give, their word, flexibility to the house republican leadership and they re not going to look at this potential vote to raise the debt ceiling. we re expecting a little more clarity on this tonight, possibly a bill tonight, and a vote on the house floor sometime tomorrow. we re going to leave it there. all we keep