Exactly did it come to this. Do you believe you know the way to get things done for the American People so that we dont have another shutdown of the government . There is a very simple way of doing this, which is, the Senate Passed a budget and the house passed a budget. Maybe youre not old enough to remember schoolhouse rock im just a bill, yes, im only a bill and im sitting here on capitol Hill Reporter in the notsodistant past it worked like this the president presents a budget, the house passes its budget, the Senate Passes its budget, they get together in a Compromise Committee and hammer out a compromise. Well, now im stuck in committee and ill sit here and wait while a few key congressmen discuss and debate reporter but in 2011, the newly emboldened tea partyinfused republican majority in the house of representatives held the debt ceiling hostage as leverage for implementing austerity. On our broadcast tonight, deal or default . Whats it going to be . Reporter the normal budgeta
Correspondent Kristen Welker and capitol hill correspondent kelly odonnell. I feel like were doing sideline reporting of a major Football Game or something. Kelly, let me start with you because i know in the last hour there have been a lot of fluid motions going on behind the scenes, but break it down, the expected plays well see through this hour. Well, there are some critical nuggets to report, thomas. Ive been able to report in the last half hour that House Speaker john boehner has signalled to fellow republicans that he is prepared to rely on democratic votes if necessary to pass something. Now, that means the senate has to come to a deal, and we expect that could be announced within the hour. Right now Senate Republicans have been going into their own team meeting. I was able to talk to a number of them as they were headed into that meeting. They expect to sort of get the lay of the land and find out what the next steps will be. Im also told that at least going into that meeting t
And president obama took time to talk to the nation about his agenda Going Forward. As for republicans, well, they tried to figure out just how they blundered themselves into the disaster they engineered. And today, theres plenty of blame to go around. This morning, the crisis is over. We fought the good fight. We just didnt win. Folks said we were going to lose turned out to be correct. I cant argue with that. It was a fools errand. We were not going to defund obama care. Instead of bringing people through crisis, we are creating it for them. Republican senator burris said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. And i think a lot of Establishment Republicans really never thought it would come to this. In the last 24 hours, conservatives tried to come to grips with the depths of their defeat. I was pondering if i can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime. All this crap about the law of the land. The law of the land is the constitution john boehner was never going to
It was a fools errand. We were not going to defund obama care. Instead of bringing people through crisis, we are creating it for them. Republican senator burris said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. And i think a lot of Establishment Republicans really never thought it would come to this. In the last 24 hours, conservatives tried to come to grips with the depths of their defeat. I was pondering if i can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime. All this crap about the law of the land. The law of the land is the constitution john boehner was never going to fight hard on obama care. I voted no on the bill, because this means barack obama got 100 of what he wanted. Senate republicans were divided and became basically an air force, dive bombing the House Republicans and conservatives. It would be hard to gin up this kind of effort again. I just think thats clear. Those are the people who will tame blame for shutting the government down. But the socalled suicide cauc
They blundered themselves into the disaster they engineered. And today, theres plenty of blame to go around. This morning, the crisis is over. We fought the good fight. We just didnt win. Folks said we were going to lose turned out to be correct. I cant argue with that. It was a fools errand. We were not going to defund obama care. Instead of bringing people through crisis, we are creating it for them. Republican senator burris said, its the stupidest idea ive ever heard. And i think a lot of Establishment Republicans really never thought it would come to this. In the last 24 hours, conservatives tried to come to grips with the depths of their defeat. I was pondering if i can ever remember a greater political disaster in my lifetime. All this crap about the law of the land. The law of the land is the constitution john boehner was never going to fight hard on obama care. I voted no on the bill, because this means barack obama got 100 of what he wanted. Senate republicans were divided an