that we legitimately stand on different sides of the issues. but there are empirical realities about whether or not some policies have a disparately positive impact and/or negative impact on the question of closing the gap of racial inequality. and on that, democrats have done better since democrats became the contemporary democrats, not the democrats of the you know, of old, in doing better on policies that close the racial divide on economic inequality not perfectly, but better. when you look at the issue of health care, there, even a subissue of medicaid expansion, of republican governors refusing to expand medicaid. well, the population that benefits the most disproportionately from medicaid, from health care for lower income americans are african-americans. you have republican governors saying no, no way, even though the economics and the conservative case for expanding medicaid is so strong. igor, pause right there, precisely the question i want to ask when we come back i
but speaker boehner seemed to think that these outsiders should get out of his political business. one thing i know for sure, it is getting darn interesting on that side of the aisle. at the table, angela ry, political strategist and principle of impact strategies. igor bollski, managing editor at thinkprogress.org. katrina beltran with nyu. and ron christie, a contributing columnist at the daily beast and a former special assistant to president george w. bush. igor, let me ask you this, is this the end of speaker boehner s speakership or the beginning? well, i hope it s the beginning. you know, this was kind of a long time coming. you saw in 2010 when this new class was elected, boehner very frustrated on issues like the debt ceiling, all of the budget fights. he tried to make a deal with the president, with the democrats. it didn t go anywhere. i mean, issue after issue, the farm bill, comprehensive immigration reform. he tries to do something, they pull back. and so now it all kin
that we re actually on to something good here. but i want to pick up on what igor was saying. i ll let you, but you re suggesting in a more normal politics, there s not a declaration of the great win and the great loss, but everyone losing a great deal? i think in the last couple of years, it s either been, you have to win and i have to lose. and i think if this case, we found that both sides had to give a little, both sides got a little of what they wanted, which is maybe the art of compromise. but here s a guy, i ve known john boehner for 22 years. you showed the clip of him crying. the john boehner you saw in these clips of him being upset and him wanting to say, enough is enough, enough is enough, this is ridiculous. he has about 30 or 40 members of the house who want to vote no on everything that s out there. he wants to get things done and a way to work the president and he s been stymied. and i say good for him. i want to listen to paul ryan talking about that boehner that