him in a way that he doesn t even feel like he really looks like he believes some of the things that he s saying. i think eric cantor and some of these rebel upstarts are the ones who are really in control of this horse, and john boehner is just being drug along. and ana, you see the absurdity of, you know, him trying to say to leslie stahl, you know, anything but the word compromise. he s trying to get through the sentence without using the word compromise, to the point where it s just obviously funny to leslie, that he was trying to do this, that there would be some price to pay within his caucus if he simply says the word compromise to her. i think jamal is totally right about the hostage video analogy. maybe he s trying to send us messages through different shades of tan, i mean, i don t know. it would explain something about that varying color of orange he has. but it is getting kind of ridiculous. you can sense the frustration in boehner, you can sense the frustration i
frustration in a lot of sort of moderate republicans. and not just moderate republicans, but republicans who want to get things done. i don t think boehner can be called a moderate, really. but their hands are tied. their hands are tied by their parties and by the money they have to raise. and it s a system that the american people obviously don t like. and there s the last word. ana marie cox and jamal simmons, thank you both very much for joining me tonight. thanks, lawrence. thank you. coming up in the rewrite, fox news actually attacks mitt romney for participating in what it calls the upper class olympic event of dressage. and while they re at it, of course, they find a way to attack a democrat for a sport they wrongly think is even more upper class. and all of that is in the rewrite. and later, another day, another attack on women s health services in the congress. sandra fluke will join me with the latest.
the white house. he has a frosty relationship with congress at best. but at the end of the day when you have john boehner preempting the meetings with that rhetoric, it s impossible to thing anything is going to get done. richard wolffe, the traditional role for the congressional parties was just to keep everything calm while the big guys are out there campaigning for president. don t tis tract. don t cause trouble. how does the rom knee campaign feel when the republican leadership is saying, hey, we might just close things down? well, i don t think boehner s message is designed for the national audience. so there s a total break there between the two. john boehner is talking a narrow casted message to his safe house districts. and by the way, let s be clear here and let the secret out of the bag. everybody is going to get what they want out of the giant, the mother of all lame duck sessions after this election. the debt ceiling will be raised. there will be spending cuts. there wi
the white house. he has a frosty relationship with congress at best. but at the end of the day when you have john boehner preempting the meetings with that rhetoric, it s impossible to thing anything is going to get done. richard wolffe, the traditional role for the congressional parties was just to keep everything calm while the big guys are out there campaigning for president. don t distract. don t cause trouble. how does the romney campaign feel when the republican leadership is saying, hey, we might just close things down? well, i don t think boehner s message is designed for the national audience. so there s a total break there between the two. john boehner is talking a narrow casted message to his safe house districts. and by the way, let s be clear here and let the secret out of the bag. everybody is going to get what
so i do think boehner is a hypocrite for making a complaint about this. the real issue is what s happening with the student loan bill. you do have some house republicans saying we re happy to support this bill. that is if you take money away from the obama care provisions that fund health care for women. so we re getting right back to the same sort of fight and boehner doesn t want that. he is making the issue about wheels up. what the republicans want to do to policy. it remarkable that mr. boehner finds so many words to ache the president for his use of air force one. when it come to bombeding to a question about federal funding, sorry, funding of the federal government, this is how he responds. listen to this. bla bla bla bla bla. all right? so? yes. incredible, isn t it? yeah. the over articulateness of the