that are just come to shut down government, they don t want to do it. i think the cooler heads will prevail and eventually, the republican party you know, i don t think boehner wants to do this either, really, i don t. here s another potential glinch. saturday s navy/air force game is in limbo. it could be canceled or postponed because of the government shutdown. if it continues, it will affect the guy name this weekend. same goes for the army/boston college game. we re hearing a final decision should come down tomorrow. in the meantime, i want to bring in bobby jones with the united states navy. he s a dear friend of mine from the sixth grade. so rashad, hello. you played football, my friend, back in the day in annapolis at the u.s. naval academy. your brother went to the air force, brandon. how kuj is this game? well, it s big for a variety
party member, but a general interest. it s why you have the sets of rules that you do so that what you want actually is a strong boehner because a strong boehner keeps these kinds of interests in line. and what we see right now is a very weak boehner. we see him, no control over, i mean, essentially zero control over his own caucus and i wonder also what this portends down the line for how this congress behaves even after this crisis. i mean, we have gone from crisis to crisis where at a certain point, robert, boehner, i mean, does boehner actually fall at some point? is there an actual coup where they call a new election or he has to set down? i don t think boehner is going to have any kind of coup awe tempt, but his power is very much suffering. when it comes to thinking about immigration reform moving ahead, does boehner have any kind of sway to move something forward?
strategy said his members are united behind it. when it comes to the health care law, the debate in the house has been settled and the position is very clear. the law is a train wreck ask it s going to raise cost and it s destroying american jobs and it must go. this afternoon the president heads to missouri where he will discuss the danger of playing politics with the economy and he has warned that he would veto that house bill if it got to his desk. it likely won t make it that far. a bunch of republican senators have said the bill is dead-on arrival. we can force votes on obama care from time to time and the american people are not in support of it. no one fought harder than i did. to think we will defund it is simply not going to happen at this time. if you don t think boehner has a strategy, you didn t fully appreciates it words for ted and
republicans. and by the way, they re the ones you have to defend here, and 34% say obama and the democrats. i think these numbers are pretty scary if you are mr. boehner. chris, i m not going to argue the politics on that. you re absolutely right. the messaging of the gop has, quite frankly, sucked on this issue. there s no doubt about that. but it still doesn t change the underlying facts that democrats, including the newly elected re-elected president, are on the hook for this just as much as the republicans are. neither side have effectively dealt with this. we ve left simpson/bowles sitting on the sidelines. we ve now had simpson/bowles two, no one is talking about that. sequester is something that both democrats and republicans put on the table. and now everyone is acting like, oh, my god, we re going to do this? come on. so the republicans are losing the fight over public opinion, governor. it s usually important in politics, public opinion. it s not important until it s
issue. there s no doubt about that. but it still doesn t change the underlying facts that democrats, including the newly elected re-elected president, are on the hook for this just as much as the republicans are. neither side have effectively dealt with this. we ve left simpson/bowles sitting on the sidelines. we ve now had simpson/bowles two, no one is talking about that. sequester is something that both democrats and republicans put on the table. and now everyone is acting like, oh, my god, we re going to do this? come on. so the republicans are losing the fight over public opinion, governor. it s usually important in politics, public opinion. it s not important until it s time for an election. and the republicans are losing the fight and democrats are winning it, and the question is who is playing fair here? i don t think boehner is at fault. i think boehner s problem and i use the phrase feeding time at the zoo very accurately i think he s keeping the right wing of his