olympics the shin-kicking championships if you will. experts say it began as a form of wrestling and the goal is simple. kick your opponent until he drops. the skill level, i suppose, is more the stamina, to keep going. it s very sleek. it s having the will to do what the other man won t, to keep standing taking a kick. i ll get over the pain eventually. after a couple more days, have a few more drinks tonight. how many drinks before they start kicking each other? adam miller is this year s kicking champion. the game s also featured wheel barrow and sack racing and tug-of-war. sounds like an a kid s birthday party. we told you about staff sergeant thomas florich killed in a training mission in march. his father wants his remains buried at arlington national
trying to get 218 frogs in a wheel barrow long enough to pass a bill. it s hard to do. today, john boehner did not say that the crazy jumping frogs in his wheel barrow are preventing him from immigration reform. instead, of course, he blamed the president of the united states. we re going to continue to discus this issue with our members. but i think the president is going to have to demonstrate to the american people and to my colleagues that he can be trusted to enforce the law as it is written. joining me now, washington post columnist eugene robinson and msnbc contributor joy reid, ho of the upcoming msnbc show the reid report. john boehner says it ain t the frogs in my wheel barrow, it s that president preventing me from doing immigration reform. yeah. you know, and the thing,
i think ought to be dealt with. i think a comprehensive approach is long overdue. and i m confident that the president, myself, others can find the common ground to take care of this issue once and for all. and here is the same john boehner on the tonight show two weeks ago. it takes 218 to pass any bill. i like to describe my job as trying to get 218 frogs in a wheel barrow long enough to pass a bill. it s hard to do. today, john boehner did not say that the crazy jumping frogs in his wheel barrow are preventing him from immigration reform. instead, of course, he blamed the president of the united states. we re going to continue to discus this issue with our members. but i think the president is going to have to demonstrate to the american people and to my colleagues that he can be trusted to enforce the law as it
is written. joining me now, washington post columnist eugene robinson and msnbc contributor joy reid, ho of the upcoming msnbc show the reid report. john boehner says it ain t the frogs in my wheel barrow, it s that president preventing me from doing immigration reform. yeah. you know, and the thing, lawrence, that happens is every time the frogs that can do math, right, that understand demographics say wait a minute, fellow republican party members we ve got to do something to stop alienating latino, john boehner and those of the normals all say yeah, let s do it. then they get chopped up by right wing talk radio. then they get pulled back down into the barrow by the other frogs saying absolutely don t do anything. it s a really hard tension.
yes. there s no room to say yes, something went wrong at the irs, like we need to, you know, figure out who is responsible and not do that again but it doesn t rise to the level of impeachment. we don t have to talk about it two and a half years. there s almost this yale gor rhythmic logic any time anything gets in the blood stream it has to go huge or die. go big or go home. one of the reasons we re talking about this isn t just because focusing on insanity in parts of the far right is worthy of discussion, but also because of the fight that is looming in the fall, right? and i think this is representative of a larger inability by some of the moderate elder statesmen of the republican party to stand up to the conspiracy theorists, birthers, far right wing conservatives ready to shut down the government. if tom coburn is now saying the white house is getting peril hisly close to impeachment what does that say about what s going to happen in the fall and anybody s ability to round