were cracks in the republican leadership, cracks in establishment republicans versus tea party republicans at the end of that last debate, and the reason that there were cracks is that people like lamar alexander, people like mitch mcconnell, like john boehner, were worried about the consequences of a default and a catastrophic reaction. okay, john didn t get to default but we re seeing reaction now and that s what republicans can understand and act upon. two great reports. one is eric cantor s worried that the grown-ups will take over. that there will be pressure on the people to raise taxes as part of a solution. you re also saying there are people who are already
your thoughts, john? there is another way. i agree, chris i don t see spontaneous pressure coming up. first of all, the president s own ratings are fairly weak and many americans are confused about who s to blame for the economic situation we re in. but you did notice that there were cracks in the republican leadership, cracks in establishment republicans versus tea party republicans at the end of that last debate, and the reason that there were cracks is that people like lamar alexander, people like mitch mcconnell, like john boehner, were worried about the consequences of a default and a catastrophic reaction. okay, john didn t get to default but we re seeing reaction now and that s what republicans can understand and act upon. two great reports. one is eric cantor s worried that the grown-ups will take over. that there will be pressure on the people to raise taxes as part of a solution. you re also saying there are people who are already grown-ups, i recognize people like
own ratings are fairly weak and many americans are confused about who s to blame for the economic situation we re in. but you did notice that there were cracks in the republican leadership, cracks in establishment republicans versus tea party republicans at the end of that last debate, and the reason that there were cracks is that people like lamar alexander, people like mitch mcconnell, like john boehner, were worried about the consequences of a default and a catastrophic reaction. okay, john didn t get to default but we re seeing reaction now and that s what republicans can understand and act upon. two great reports. one is eric cantor s worried that the grown-ups will take over. that there will be pressure on the people to raise taxes as part of a solution. you re also saying there are people who are already grown jaups, i recognize people like boehner would like to save the american people from collapse. what s the president do given those two facts? back to melissa.
didn t take any action and probably should have turned it over to the ethics committee. but i don t understand his beef. do you understand him? kennedy is clearly passionate about it. i think there are several different issues. one of them is calling the press despicable, i m sure every politician. bill: i call the press despicable, but on afghanistan he didn t vote let s pull the truth on out now. he voted against it. i don t know what kennedy is talking about. i think he is talking about is this. there are a lot of people who are patriotic americans about afghanistan. some think that we should pull out because it will be a quagmire and others think we have no choice because the taliban and al-qaeda will take