staring contest, can you see anybody blinking? everybody thought i guess they thought first of all that boehner would blink and he d take on his tea party and say i only want 50 or 75 votes. i don t need you crazy people. i just need a few normal people, and we ll get 150 democrats, and we ll pass something. he didn t blink and do that. is there any chance he will before monday? i think there s a chance if harry reid and mitch mcconnell can blink together, they can come to agreement to bring something to the floor and move forward, then and only then will they blink, but both have to hold hands and jump into the pool at the same time. but mitch mcconnell is worried about, what, ashley judd running against him? what is he really worried about? i m just kidding because he s not worried about the general election. he s worried about a primary election like a rand paul. and the other by the way, he is from rand paul s state. it s possible. he is. the other thing to keep in mi
they re wearing their socks, walking around the house, whatever they re doing, enjoying their life. nobody is running around like i am wondering what s going to happen. how do you explain the lack of worry up there? from a republican standpoint, the house being out is a lever to try to get the senate to put something on the floor, and speaker boehner has been very clear it s the senate s turn to act. senate dems aren t taking that bait. they feel like they ll put something on the floor. if they don t have republican consent for it, they will have to pull it or see it go down in flames, and then republicans can point to their failure and say, hey, look, they failed, too. so democrats are wary of kind of falling into this trap that republicans they feel are trying to set for them, and so there s this kind of staring contest up here where everybody is looking at everybody and it s like watching a slow motion car crash. using that metaphor of a staring contest, can you see anybody blin
their life. nobody is running around like i am wondering what s going to happen? how do you explain the lack of worry up there? from a republican standpoint the house being out is a lever to try to get the senate to put something on the floor and speaker boehner has been very clear it s the senate s turn to act. senate dems aren t taking that bait. they feel like they ll put something on the floor. if they don t have republican consent for it, they will have to pull it or see it go down in flames and then republicans can point to their failure and say, hey, look, they failed, too. so democrats are wary of kind of falling into this trap that republicans they feel are trying to set for them and so there s this kind of staring contest up here where everybody is looking at everybody and it s like watching a slow motion car crash. using that metaphor of a staring contest, can you see anybody blinking? everybody thought i guess they fought first of all that boehner would blink and he d