compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor s cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call their representatives, the capitol hill phone lines have been jammed, so are the republicans listening? is the tea party deaf to these cries on the part of the american people to get this resolved before we are at t-minus two days? does it even matter what the public thinks? t being the operative letter of the day. for a lot of these tea party members, they are terribly wrong and their view is dangerous, but they believe on principle. when teddy roosevelt won in 1912, we stand ona armageddon ad battle for the lord. that makes this very difficult. also, a lot of republicans are much more worried about losing primaries to candidates to their right than losing general
and not enough republicans, he s also threatened. so i think it s that internal politics in the republican caucus that s blocking this. i think what might happen is that mitch mcconnell may decide to let harry reid pass his plan without threatening a filibuster. now, if he did that, the democrats could get it through with a majority. that s how most democracies do things, but not our senate, and that may set up grounds for a solution. that s about the only thing i could see right now that might begin to get us out of this or at least begin real negotiations again. so, speaking of that, of the idea there is, in fact, a majority rule, and that there s so much politics going on here, look, we saw this reuters poll indicating a majority of voters favor president obama s compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor s cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call
favor president obama s compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor s cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call their representatives, the capitol hill phone lines have been jammed, so are the republicans listening? is the tea party deaf to these cries on the part of the american people to get this resolved before we are at t-minus two days? does it even matter what the public thinks? t being the operative letter of the day. for a lot of these tea party members, they are terribly wrong and their view is dangerous, but they believe on principle. when teddy roosevelt won in 1912, we stand ona armageddon ad battle for the lord. that makes this very difficult. also, a lot of republicans are much more worried about losing primaries to candidates to their right than losing general
favor president obama s compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor s cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call their representatives, the capitol hill phone lines have been jammed, so are the republicans listening? is the tea party deaf to these cries on the part of the american people to get this resolved before we are at t-minus two days? does it even matter what the public thinks? t being the operative letter of the day. for a lot of these tea party members, they are terribly wrong and their view is dangerous, but they believe on principle. when teddy roosevelt won in 1912, we stand on armageddon and battle for the lord. that makes this very difficult. also, a lot of republicans are much more worried about losing primaries to candidates to their right than losing general elections. now, maybe this will begin to change when those republicans, including a few of the tea party people sitting on seats that went for president obama in 2
he puts together a deal that is supported by too many democrats and not enough republicans, he s also threatened. so i think it s that internal politics in the republican caucus that s blocking this. i think what might happen is that mitch mcconnell may decide to let harry reid pass his plan without threatening a filibuster. now, if he did that, the democrats could get it through with a majority. that s how most democracies do things, but not our senate, and that may set up grounds for a solution. that s about the only thing i could see right now that might begin to get us out of this or at least begin real negotiations again. so, speaking of that, of the idea there is, in fact, a majority rule, and that there s so much politics going on here, look, we saw this reuters poll indicating a majority of voters favor president obama s compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor s cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call