confirmed and he calls democrats obstructionists, so he is not counting on them, but in the case of the supreme court, was mitch mcconnell the prime person to prevent president obama getting merrick garland confirmed? yes. and president trump a year and half into the term is going to have two lifetime appointments to the supreme court, and one other point about the narrowness of the senate right now, and president trump has had a lot of the ire for john mccain and the health care vote, but remember, he was joined by susan collins and lisa murkowski for voting no on the health care and stymieing president for a major moment, and this is another one, and those two senators are the ones that he is most eager to win over, and who could have the fate of his next nomination in their hands.
tooumy of pennsylvania. this is clearly the best chance of stymieing donald trump. it s partly because betsy devos has so many traits or active goods that make her a target for democrats. big fundraiser for the republican party a woman of enormous personal wealth and very conservative figure generally beyond the area of education. and then you have the halting performance at the hearing that you just played, steve. so i think when you put all of that together. that s why she is target number one. all right. nile and caitlin, thanks to both of you. have a great weekend. and we mentioned, that interview, greta van u.s. is tren sitting down with sean spicer. for the record, 6:00 p.m. eastern here on mbz.
more expansive government, and you have a republican president coming to office and offers you, hey, no medicare, you know, part d, no child left behind, you re going to work a little bit because you re getting a little bit what you want. the republicans from their base perspective, they were sent there to do things like stop spending, and stop obama care and things like that. so if their voters are telling them the first thing they want them to do is stop, either on spending side or program side, that s what that s what they re doing. amazingly enough, when newt gingrich took over in 1994, the republicans had the house and the senate. and an argument could be made that the republican house is as effective or even more effective just in terms of just the house in terms of stymieing what the democrat wants to do. i want to say one other thing, we also are looking at trends that are going across the
of center next year, this year? i think there ll be some common ground. i think issues like education reform, maybe something on immigration, something dealing with lowering the corporate tax rate, i think those are areas where we re going to the see some coalition building and people working and finding true areas of common ground. i absolutely foresee that. richard, is there going to be a right-wing assault on boehner and on the issue of like debt ceiling. stupid things from their perspective stupid things from their perspective from the tea party? budget, debt ceiling, absolutely. they have way too high expectations about shrinking government and stymieing the president. he s going to be able to pick off republican senators on energy, on some of the stuff on the economy. it will be frustrating for them. they will be in rebellion mode. that s what they were born to do. somebody said there were two moderate two moderates. are those people the only people
republican senators who want expansion of the highly educated immigr t immigrants. i ve got to go around the table. richard already did it. michelle, your thoughts? will there be common ground left of center next year, this year? i think there ll be some common ground. i think issues like education reform, maybe something on immigration, something dealing with lowering the corporate tax rate, i think those are areas where we re going to the see some coalition building and people working and finding true areas of common ground. i absolutely and finding true areas of common ground, i absolutely foresee that. richard, is there going fob a right-wing assault on boehner and on the issue of, like, stupid things from their perspective from the tea party? yeah, budget, debt ceiling, absolutely. they have they have way too high expectations about shrinking government and stymieing the president. he s going to be able to pick off republican senate on energy, on some of the small ba