cramer, for the republican party to get candidates who believe the way you do that are obamacare is a pernicious law and should be defunded and basically thrown out? have them run on that ticket, all right? and then win as mr. blakeman suggests. and then accumulate power so that you might do something. but again, president obama will veto. he s in there for three years. going to veto anything. wouldn t that make more strategy cal sense, ms. cramer? i think we are fighting on that front, too, we re just not talking about that. what we re talking about right now is defunding obamacare. everybody talks like the republicans want to say we want to shut down the government. no, the president and harry reid have both said they re going to shut down the government if we don t roll back the sequester. bill, we re willing to compromise. we re giving him a c.r. that totally funds the government and continues his deficit spending. and in return, we want to delay obamacare for a year. i don t thi
me. you know it and he knows it. he would be reduced to pudding on the factor. that is why cohen will not appear. that being said, fan nat ittism on the right also harming the country. responsible lawmakers have to find a way to deal with their opponents in congress. there s no way obamacare is going to be defunded. it is not going to happen. so why bother alienating independent americans by embracing a futile exercise? karl rove has an interesting column on that in the wall street journal today. and that s the memo. now to the top story tonight, reaction joining us from washington, brad blakeman, former senior adviser to president bush the younger and from atlanta amy cramer chairman of the tea party express organization. where am i going wrong here, ms. cramer? i mean, i think you re right on congressman cohen. and we see it time and time again that the liberals can t debate the issues so what do
me. you know it and he knows it. he would be reduced to pudding on the factor. that is why cohen will not appear. that being said, fan nat ittism on the right also harming the country. responsible lawmakers have to find a way to deal with their opponents in congress. there s no way obamacare is going to be defunded. it is not going to happen. so why bother alienating independent americans by embracing a futile exercise? karl rove has an interesting column on that in the wall street journal today. and that s the memo. now to the top story tonight, reaction joining us from washington, brad blakeman, former senior adviser to president bush the younger and from atlanta amy cramer chairman of the tea party express organization. where am i going wrong here, ms. cramer? i mean, i think you re right on congressman cohen. and we see it time and time again that the liberals can t debate the issues so what do
they do? they resort to personal attacks. thankfully the constitution allows him to speak his mind but also allows us freedom of religion, freedom of speech and the second amendment, the right to own guns. so i think you re dead on there. on the congress issue and defunding obamacare, bill, i have to disagree with you. because this is a law, it s a bad law that continues to get worse every day. as we re seeing with more and more people taking away benefits from their employees, cutting their hours back, that sort of thing. the president himself has already delayed portions of this law for big business, for congress, special interests. why not do the same for the middle class average american? why not delay it. i will tell you, ms. cramer, what you are trying to do, the tea party is trying to do, is impossible. so do you not know that? the senate is not going to go along, even if the house were to vote to defund obamacare, which
cramer, for the republican party to get candidates who believe the way you do that are obamacare is a pernicious law and should be defunded and basically thrown out? have them run on that ticket, all right? and then win as mr. blakeman suggests. and then accumulate power so that you might do something. but again, president obama will veto. he s in there for three years. going to veto anything. wouldn t that make more strategy cal sense, ms. cramer? i think we are fighting on that front, too, we re just not talking about that. what we re talking about right now is defunding obamacare. everybody talks like the republicans want to say we want to shut down the government. no, the president and harry reid have both said they re going to shut down the government if we don t roll back the sequester. bill, we re willing to compromise. we re giving him a c.r. that totally funds the government and continues his deficit spending. and in return, we want to delay obamacare for a year. i don t thi