they are not speaking to solutions and how we can move this country forward. until they get there and put out a vision, i think people will continue, republicans especially with who they have to offer. each one has flaws. each one is highlighted for. most of the people out there, you know, candidates are out there, white males and many of them have an elevated, you know, lifestyle that they haven t had. i think that s why michele bachmann as a woman, as a mother, is generating some enthusiasm. but look, i ve been asked this question and i m not sure anyone can answer. let s try again. let s start with you michelle. what is it that republicans want? they have the tea party person, they don t like it. they have mitt romney, they don t like him. what do tle want? here is my personal take on this. if you take a look at the poll for example that you were referring to from the new york times, i think that s in april. it is remarkable how much the
washington speak, that means one week band-aid budget to keep the government going and would only agree to that if they felt they were so close in the negotiations that they would not have a shutdown, continue the negotiations, have one more week, one more week and try to get that deal for the rest of the six months of the fiscal year. they say they re close to that, eliot. you start dotting the is and crossing the ts and you know this well, these deals can collapse. that s one interesting part. john boehner would have to sell it to a conservative caucus. he s getting a lot of help tonight. we heard the tea party people don t think there is enough cuts in recent days. the social activists want the abortion language in there. a growing number of outside conservatives are saying cut the best deal you can cut now, do not put the party back on its heels and then debate those things in the much bigger fight that is about to come over next year s budget. you have sarah palin saying if you ha
going to have it easy. if you look at speaker-elect john boehner. john boehner, half of the new people coming into congress, and 34 of them, have never served at all in political office. completely new to politics. you look at senator-elect rand paul, tea party person, and doesn t want to spend any money, and mitch mcconnell, and john boehner were around in 1995 when newt gingrich made some mistakes and decided to shut the government down. john boehner does not want that to happen again and he knows what happened to the republican party when that happened. he has to talk to the new members as is mitch mcconnell and say, we want deficit reduction out of this, and maybe not the $500 billion that rand paul was talking to you about, but we want to get some deficit reduction when we do the debt ceiling, but it may not be as much as you want, and it is going to be test of the purity of the new members, the new republican members, because if they want to remain pure, they