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It s as hard for him. i do think, james, to some degree the question of whether 2014 is an off year is probably up for debate. i think there already is more attention paid to this 2014 race than there was for 2010. don t let us forget we will probably be relitigating the funding of the government and debt ceiling again before the november elections. the question is does anybody pay a price for what is happening right now. does paul ryan pay a price? he s involved in this. i m not going to venture a prediction on this one. we re two days away from a possible government default. we have no idea how it s going to play out politically and the consequences. one hopes actually they would be fairly severe for a lot of people who brought us to this point. the district. his district is one of the few out there that aren t written so he has a very hard line sort of republican base there. in that sense, he could actually face he does have a ton of money ....
this is a very difficult thing to sell. the goodies, they come up front. happen right now.ginning to premiums going up. these exchanges will not be in place by october 1st. we will get the full implementation on january 1st. it is going to be chaos. the rules aren t written. the plan is not eady. what if is is a train wreck? it is a train wreck. assumingt is i believe it will be. we are going to ha sticker shock for people. the question is, what are the political implications? this is january of a mid-t politicallications a for a democrat. th policy implicatns are e worse. ma blackburn, chair woman, has a proposal to delay it for one year,ause it is not goto be repea in time to stop the train wreck. could they get a delay for one year so tu could look at some ofese actuarial tables give people cidence in the d ....
this is a very difficult thing to sell. the goodies, they come up front. happen right now.ginning to premiums going up. these exchanges will not be in weillll get thefull implementation on january 1st. it is going to be chaos. the rules aren t written. the plan is not eady. what if is is a train wreck? it is a train wreck. assumingt is i believe it will be. we are going to ha sticker shock for people. the question is, what are the political implications? this is janua of a mid-t politicallications for a democrat. th policy implicatns are e worse. blackburn, chair woman, has a proposalo delay it for one year,ause it is not goto be repea in time to stop the train wreck. could they get a delay for one year so tu could look at some ofese actuarial tables give peopleidence in the and ....
Borrow more money. obviously you can t get off it cold turkey because we can t cut the budget by 40% in one week. but i believe that the republicans are on exactly the right track of opposing additional taxes, supporting spending cuts and demanding constitutional reform of a balanced budget amendment with spending caps on the federal government in return for a debt limit increase. right. but the tea party and michele bachmann, did you see the interview? absolutely not. that s a good bargaining position. and. bill: i have got to tell you it s more than a bargaining position. i have read thousands of viewer mail this week there are people out there who say we don t care if the economy collapses. we don t care if the checks aren t written. we don t want any debt ceiling rise. period. what would you put the percentage of those americans at? you are a tea party guy. right now, probably, i mean if you just ask the question, ....
Borrow more money. obviously you can t get off it cold turkey because we can t cut the budget by 40% in one week. but i believe that the republicans are on exactly the right track of opposing additional taxes, supporting spending cuts and demanding constitutional reform of a balanced budget amendment with spending caps on the federal government in return for a debt limit increase. right. but the tea party and michele bachmann, did you see the interview? absolutely not. that s a good bargaining position. and. bill: i have got to tell you it s more than a bargaining position. i have read thousands of viewer mail this week there are people out there who say we don t care if the economy collapses. we don t care if the checks aren t written. we don t want any debt ceiling rise. period. what would you put the percentage of those americans at? you are a tea party guy. right now, probably, i mean if you just ask the question, ....