at the same time, we ve got senate democrats led by harry reid, they don t want to take that bill from mcconnell until they know what speaker boehner will do. what mcconnell offered is a two step approach. fund the department through the fiscal year that takes us to october 1st. that makes most people happy. then a second vote which would address concerns of conservatives that say the president has overreached, but it is not a full roll back like we saw in the house bill. it is a more narrow focus on just deportations. it would leave dreamers intact rules related to them. that s one of the changes that would be more appealing to some of the more mainstream republicans in the senate who say let s get this done. but the question is what can house speaker john boehner do? he is in a meeting with his conference now. the most vocal members don t want to see him give an inch to the senate because even though senate majority leader of last
despite what they say publicly, there are a number of conservatives, even elected officials in the house, who think that a government shutdown would be a good thing in terms of sending a message that they mean it when they say that they really want to do whatever is possible to change or chip away at obama care. that s where things stand now. we will certainly be here until midnight but unless something dramatic changes, it doesn t look like things are going to move to funding the government by that deadline. then where do we go from here? theoretically if that happens, and it doesn t seem as though there are any major conversations going on between the white house and boehner or the house and the senate, if that does happen, and the senate is insisting clean bill, nothing attached to it, just funding the government, and the house is saying no, then what? reporter: you know, i had a senior republican source say to me over the weekend that they sort of feel like they re going to hav
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where these younger members, more partisan nmembers, more vocal members who have more access to media fund-raising on the outside, they don t need the leadership. and it s a sign of how the seniority system, the more consensus-oriented older guys are losing power because jim demint, one of the most powerful voices in the senate, and yet he doesn t have a law to his name. he wasn t an old bull. he didn t have a long list of legislative accomplishments. mark mckinnon, that s the point, isn t it, that you can influence the debate, but as far as legislating it, as far as writing laws that change which direction the country goes, or influences where we go over the next 10, 20 years, to do that, you ve got to talk to, you know, the man or woman sitting next to you instead of talk radio. that s right. you know, as mike alluded to, he left literally no legislative footprints. i mean, there s nothing in the
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