border, but i think they are caving somewhat to political pressure. what changed? it s not just republicans like rick perry pressing the president. you had henry cuellar telling neil cavuto that the president should have seen this coming and that as a texas democrat, cuellar says the president should go to the border. what the white house is trying to do politically is finding middle ground. they don t want to cave totally to governor perry and have the president get a photo op because it s a crisis on theand that s y look bad for the president to get caught up in the middle of that crisis. instead, the white house is trying to put it on their turf and say let s have a round table meeting with the president, governor perry, faith leaders and others to try to discuss the problem. i suspect there will be some republicans who say we ve been talk being this problem for a long time. how about you secure the borrowedder and take action? it will be more pressure on him. but i think the white
to gain by going over the cliff in that s what our next guest points out, where he says that many of them have calculated it is better to go over the cliff, at least temporarily, than swallow a raw deal. with me is jonathan allen. it s good to have you here. break it down for us. what s in it for both sides? i think what is at work here is going over the fiscal cliff is a better option than the worst-scale snare i don t. it matt not be the optimal snare i don t, but for republicans, they would have an tune to vote for tack cuts. they also may figure they ll have an opportunity to negotiate for other items. they don t want to cave for president obama. on the democratic side, they re winning the public relations war on this.