wednesday or on a vote at all this week, if they have to pull this new version of the bill because they can t cobble together enough yeses to get to 216, that is a problem and the more political capital they extend and the more statements that you have from the president tweeting in an interview saying, oh, we re going to get a vote, don t even worry about it, it is going to be easy, it is going to be great, ultimately there is no amount of window dressing that can cover it up when that is not the case. then you just have cable news playing back all those quotes saying it is going to be great, it is going to happen. so, yes, they are setting themselves up for are failure, but this will not be the first time if that s the way it plays out that this president said something, doesn t turn out to be the case. thus far he s paid maybe less of a political price for that sort of thing than your prototypical politician because he is still not perceived to be your run of the mill politician.
knee jerk reaction if they had said, for instance, that you had over 60, well, that s because they re getting on the run away freight train, lock the guys up, the wheels of justice, things are getting out of hand, you know, what you just discussed with the mayor. my sense is that they re hedging on the side of the reverse position, which is unusual, but how else would you explain it, if ever there was a time to get the 60 votes? it s today. it s right now, 4:30. this is the time for it. logically, rationally. intellectually, pragmatically. this is the time. neil: they haven t given up on this. there is still time. but on boston, while i ve got you here, who do you think is behind this? i think it s home grown. i think it s an individual home grown fanatic. i think it s one of our own. i think it s a radicalized ideologue from america who is in america. i don t know i can t cobble neil: a single? i don t know.
years? my grand mother on a farm in michigan had a ring telephone no, electricity, outhouse and she walked the first guy walk on the moon. i would like to see the next generation leigh footprints of the moon. i hope it happens. get more evenly thoughts from charles krauthammer. i talked to kneel about that. he said those people represent a time in the country when it seemed we could do the impossible. now we can t cobble together deal on the fiscal cliff. what are your thoughts? humans lived in the sky for 100,000 years and finally got off the ground at kitty hawk. then it took 66 years to go from the flight a minute-and-a-half or so, kitty hawk to the moon. yet for the next 40, we lived in retreat.