patriots and club for growth and heritage action to a certain extent and freedom works and erick erickson from red state and all of these people in the astro turf right saying this is a caving. this is a disaster. any republican who went along with this is a horrible person. how do you balance that outside right criticism of what boehner did and the no one should doubt the power of those outside groups. only yesterday you saw this bill on its way to the rules committee, the boehner bill, the house option. heritage action had to pull it. they claimed that was not because of heritage action but their own internal factional disputes. a lot of that has to do with the outside groups. they don t necessarily know on what they want. look what happened the last three weeks. they had control and in this yeo
quick float when you had boehner and the president agreeing on the change and the way social security is done and the leader of the house republican campaign committee greg walden say, you know what, we re going to run against the democrats. president obama is the party of cutting social security. right. this is where it gets tricky. mark is right, this is sort of it s a little bit of a trap. what boehner and mcconnell would like to see in their the type of things they have been talking about, this is not good politics, not good low cloud torl politics, reforming and changing the way it s going. it s easy to demagogue in the campaign trail. there s a lot of trepidation here. on the other hand, this is their last best chance. exactly. obama is a democrat. this is a nixon to china moment. harry reid is not going to do this deal.
an absolute caving, disaster. any republican that went along with this is a horrible person. how do you balance that outside of right criticism of what boehner did and then the crazing of boehner? it s odd. no one should doubt the power of those outside groups. only yesterday you saw this bill on its way to the rules committee, the boehner bill, the house option. heritage action had to pull it. they claimed that was not because of heritage action but their own internal factional disputes. a lot of that has to do with the outside groups. they don t necessarily know on what they want. look what happened the last three weeks. they had control and in this yeo said that we cannot repeal obama care until we win the white house and senate. that cannot happen until 2017. what were the last three weeks
on the issue of how the right is handling republican leadership now, you are right that we have seen all of these insurgent tea party republicans that caused all this hassle. now they had never loved them more than we love him now. at the same time, the tea party patriots and club for growth, heritage action to a certain extent, freedom works, guys like eric erickson from red state and all these people, the grassroots right. the astroturf right say this is an absolute caving, disaster. any republican that went along with this is a horrible person. how do you balance that outside of right criticism of what boehner did and then the crazing of boehner? it s odd. no one should doubt the power of those outside groups. only yesterday you saw this bill on its way to the rules committee, the boehner bill, the
you know, i don t want to get into personalities, but it s very clear that what boehner has done ul up until this point is say that it is more important that he works with extreme right wing people and satisfy their needs rather than become the speaker of the united states house of representatives and do what s right for the american people. and i think that that is very, very unfortunate. and, thomas, let me tell you something else, which people don t perceive. we have spent the last two weeks fixated on whether or not the united states government remains shut down or whether it opens and whether we pay our bills. meanwhile, there are enormous issues facing this country. the middle class is disappearing, poverty is at an all-time high, we re not even beginning, beginning to address the international crisis of global warming, our crumbling infrastructure, extremely high unemployment. so while we re talking about whether or not we pay our bills, this country continues to face enormo