but you everybody keeps saying that, but to vote against the speaker who is the caucus nominee, let s face it, he is the nominee of the republican party. to not vote for the speaker is a major act of betrayal on the part of any member of the congress. you have to that day the idea if he goes and forces through a tax increase, they could express their dissatisfaction, their unhappiness, by not voting for him for speaker. it takes a majority of the full house for him to get elected. a couple dozen of those guys i know this stuff. for the sake of the viewers. but for the sake of me, there used to be a sense of doing the right thing, and by the time you re the party nominee for speaker, you vote for the party nominee for speaker. you don t just screw around with this thing because that would elect pelosi. if you want to see politicians do the right thing, turn to tnt and you can watch mr. smith goes to washington. is that the craziest thing, that the people would vote
they re wearing their socks, walking around the house, whatever they re doing, enjoying their life. nobody is running around like i am wondering what s going to happen. how do you explain the lack of worry up there? from a republican standpoint, the house being out is a lever to try to get the senate to put something on the floor, and speaker boehner has been very clear it s the senate s turn to act. senate dems aren t taking that bait. they feel like they ll put something on the floor. if they don t have republican consent for it, they will have to pull it or see it go down in flames, and then republicans can point to their failure and say, hey, look, they failed, too. so democrats are wary of kind of falling into this trap that republicans they feel are trying to set for them, and so there s this kind of staring contest up here where everybody is looking at everybody and it s like watching a slow motion car crash. using that metaphor of a staring contest, can you see anybody blin
only want 50 or 75 votes. i don t need you crazy people. i just need a few normal people, and we ll get 150 democrats, and we ll pass something. he didn t blink and do that. is there any chance he will before monday? i think there s a chance if harry reid and mitch mcconnell can blink together, they can come to agreement to bring something to the floor and move forward, then and only then will they blink, but both have to hold hands and jump into the pool at the same time. but mitch mcconnell is worried about, what, ashley judd running against him? what is he really worried about? i m just kidding because he s not worried about the general election. he s worried about a primary election like a rand paul. and the other by the way, he is from rand paul s state. it s possible. he is. the other thing to keep in mind is boehner s speakership vote is up on january 3rd. but you everybody keeps saying that, but to vote against the speaker who is the caucus nominee, let s face i
need you crazy people i just need a few normal people and we ll get 150 democrats and we ll pass something. he didn t blink and do that. is there any chance he will before monday? i think there s a chance if harry reid and mitch mcconnell can blink together, they can come to agreement to bring something to the floor and move forward, then and only then will they blink but both have to hold hands and jump into the pool at the same time. but mitch mcconnell is worried about, what, ashley judd running against him. what is he really worried about? i m just kidding because he s not worried about the general election. he s worried about a primary election like a rand paul. and a the other by the way, he is from rand paul s state. it s possible. he is. the other thing to keep in mind is boehner s speakership vote is up on january 3rd. but you everybody keeps saying that but to vote against the speaker who is the caucus nominee, let s face it, he is the nominee of the republica
issues there are if he can get through this he can survive. the question is whether speaker boehner really is in control of his caucus. earlisterly whier this month he raised the ire of several on the right when he removed several heads of committees. the whole episode gave boehner the feel of a substitute teacher who is accountable for what happens in the clat room but isn t really in control of the kids. well, that s pretty good. after boehner s plan b failed conservative columnist jennifer rubin wrote this, quote, his caucus has rendered boehner a nonplayer in any future fiscal negotiations because he can no longer speak for his conference. prance boehner should quick and let the house gop stew and wait for the country to grab pitchfor pitchforks. they are acting like a minority party or petulant teenagers. i m not sure if she s saluting that wild behavior. she might like that. they are a minority party within the house. you had said earlier they re