get behind that? i don t see that happening. here is the problem, we have the president out there for the past couple days saying let s talk, i ll talk about anything, health care, the economy, jobs. but he can t say that with a straight face while at the same time he s saying well, i m not going to have any kind of negotiation unless we have a clean funding spending bill and we raise the debt limit. as dana said, legislation is about negotiating and we can t continue to seriously have everyone come to the table when there is no table. there is no chairs. there is no place to start from and he s basically forcing and urging and depending an unconditional surrenderer. that s not a historical president when we talk about debt limits and funding the government, there is always an attachment because both sides have leverage and he cannot take that away from republicans. paul, what about this is the way it s been done in the past?
example, repeal of the medical device tax, which lots of democrats support but i think you have to first get past this hurdle. if the president were to do major reform on entitlement then, he would have to worry about democrats. john, do you see a glimmer there? you have 20 or 30 members who want a piece of obama care and want to kill it, but if they can t kill it, they want to wound it and if the president said i m not going to negotiate that as part of keeping the government open and raising the debt ceiling but if you do those two things we ll have this conversation, the problem anderson, nobody in this town trust each other. they don t trust the president. they don t believe he would do it. so that is the mess we re in. not only do they not agree but don t trust each other and like talking to each other. the fact this is the first time they met tonight when we see this problem brewing tells you everything we need to know about dysfunction. there are go ahead. the problem
the problem right now is each side is demanding the unconditional surrenderer. neither side will bow to that if they can help it. the repun g republicans are likely to track. don t you guys think we re into next week? i do. and i think that eventually, one way out of this might be to wrap it all into the question of the debt ceiling and find someway to raise the debt ceiling and avert armageddon on that and temporary fund the government while they work out the rest of this, the rest of this stuff. all right. it s one negotiation instead of two but the question, anderson, the 20 house republicans, 30 driving this go home to districts. the president lost by 20 something points and they don t feel the heat right now. they don t feel the heat. for more go to cnn.com. a young mother battling a