boehner had the courage to bring it up for a straight up or down vote. they are going to get slaughtered on this. i guess maybe he s trying to forestall the tea party but this is a loser for kevthe house. it s disappointing that congressional republicans have decided to waste time and taxpayer dollars on a political stunt. as the president said today, he s doing his job, lawsuit or not and it s time that the republicans in congress did theirs. sounds a lot like paul begala, that the democrats might be on the same page. you saw the president more energized about this than i ve seen him in a few weeks. are republicans giving him, your old boss speaker john boehner, giving the president an issue he can make some ground up on? there s two things about john boehner. he s an institutionalist. he believes very strongly in the congress and its role in the legislative process, and second he s a pretty measured guy, so i don t think john boehner would pursue this, and i don t think
physical therapy tea party endorsed 14 and 12 of them lost in a bad economy. so you have got to win, if you want to dismantle obama care, you have got to win, and yeah. got to have. bill: cruz may be the guy to take the tea party up again. well, we will see. here is the deal though. we need to have a president who will sign a measure defunding, repealing, getting rid of and replacing obama care and until we have a president who is going to do that we are going to be. bill: that s three years away. that s why i favor a delay strategy. i think it is better for us to get a narrative going says democrats and republicans alike say president obama, if you want to give the corporations a year s delay, you have got to give the working man and woman a year s delay by delaying the individual mandate. we have 30-some odd democrats. wait a minute, wait a minute. we had nearly 30 democrats in the house of representatives vote for that measure. i bet you a dime to a dollar that if it
party endorsed 14 and 12 of them lost in a bad economy. so you have got to win, if you want to dismantle obama care, you have got to win, and yeah. got to have. bill: cruz may be the guy to take the tea party up again. well, we will see. here is the deal though. we need to have a president who will sign a measure defunding, repealing, getting rid of and replacing obama care and until we have a president who is going to do that we are going to be. bill: that s three years away. that s why i favor a delay strategy. i think it is better for us to get a narrative going says democrats and republicans alike say president obama, if you want to give the corporations a year s delay, you have got to give the working man and woman a year s delay by delaying the individual mandate. we have 30-some odd democrats. wait a minute, wait a minute. we had nearly 30 democrats in the house of representatives vote for that measure. i bet you a dime to a dollar that if it came up on a straight
party endorsed 14 and 12 of them lost in a bad economy. so you have got to win, if you want to dismantle obama care, you have got to win, and yeah. got to have. bill: cruz may be the guy to take the tea party up again. well, we will see. here is the deal though. we need to have a president who will sign a measure defunding, repealing, getting rid of and replacing obama care and until we have a president who is going to do that we are going to be. bill: that s three years away. that s why i favor a delay strategy. i think it is better for us to get a narrative going says democrats and republicans alike say president obama, if you want to give the corporations a year s delay, you have got to give the working man and woman a year s delay by delaying the individual mandate. we have 30-some odd democrats. wait a minute, wait a minute. we had nearly 30 democrats in the house of representatives vote for that measure. i bet you a dime to a dollar that if it came up on a straight
publicly, i argued my conference, we have a good bill. not perfect but good bill. i think congressman lucas and peterson worked well together and i think we ought to put it on the floor and have a straight up or down vote. i think it s a mistake. we have a bipartisan bill to move forward. there s going to be opposition on the right and left. find common ground and pass the bill and do work. congresswoman any more give with democrats on the issue? the whole sticking point appears to be the food stamp program? no, i really don t think there s any more give. especially now everybody is still hurting. i think people need to continue to receive the food stamps. i agree. i think it s going to be a while. i wouldn t be surprised if there was an extension. i think if it were to pass off the floor, i do think it would have trouble in the senate as you know. quickly, congressman, you re