They cost us republicans three senate seats. We were poised to win nevada delaware and colorado where the incumbents delaware wasnt an incumbent, but mike cassell was running and hes tremendously popular, the tea party came in, the people did not participate in the primaries to the degree they should have, and the tea party nominated unelectable nominees in all three states and handed the democrats three seats they would not have otherwise had. In 2012 they handed the democrats three more with scary candidates. In 2010 it was the candidate who ran her Campaign First televised ad saying, i am not a witch. Thats a really, really jaunty catchy kind of political platform to run on. And then the other guy in 2012 was talking about legitimate rape, another political position i would recommend any of you thinking of being candidates you should avoid being in favor of that kind of thing. Add it all up if we had those we republicans this those six seats from the two previous elections, plus whe
After all this mess is over, do we really want to compromise john boehner as leader of the house . I dont know. Yes. Maybe. Senator graham raises a fair point. Where is the raucous house caucus in the deal making . Most data points to disarray. After reviewing his options over chinese takeouts and cigarettes, how angry the stock markets get on voting on a bill in the lower chamber. Speaking of which Global Financial leaders warned this weekend of massive disruption the world over should america fail. Somewhere between gaenghas khan. We will see what it takes to leave reality and step into today. Senator fellows from Brookings Institute ed. And birthday boy robert costa. Former Clinton White house secretary and managing director of the Global Park Group deedee myers, who is also the author of why women should rule the world a book everyone should own. Former white house secretary the inimitable robert gibbs. Breaking news. The president and Vice President are headed to the hill. The rep
And our story begins here, the speaker of the house, theres no need to adjust your set because this is supposed to be a photo of jim demint. He resigned from the senate back in january and he last served in the senate eight years ago. He might as well based on what happened today the guy who controls the United States house of representatives. John boehner gets to hold the gavel so he controls that but not much more. Jim demint no longer holds any office in this country anymore. He now runs a conservative think tank, even though hes no longer in congress, jim demint might as well be the speaker of the house. Today we entered day 15 of the Government Shutdown, just over 24 hours away of defaulting on our national debt, hitting the debt ceiling and running out of money to pay our bills. There are Tea Party Republicans who say theyre not worried about the thursday deadline for hitting the debt cells. China is calling for a deamericanized world because of the quote intensifying domestic po
On the right are asking, who is karl rove and why should we listen to him anymore . Rove wants electable republicans nominated. The tea partiers want their people in, real right wingers, and theyre trashing rove and Establishment Republicans in the process. Plus, youve probably heard that chuck hagel once said the following, quote, the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here. Im not an israeli senator. Im a United States senator. But what you probably havent heard is the rest of that interview and why some people who know what hagel really said arent angry with him at all. And why is Chris Christie talking so much about his weight . Maybe because he wants to talk about it on his terms, and why might that be . Because perhaps hes running for president. Finally, the recently fired dick morris admits he was wrong at the top of his lungs last november. Thats fine, but was he really wrong in predicting a romney landslide or did he know what was coming and decide thats what fox view
Seat on capitol hill. Among other things, john brennan coordinates the kill list, and so his confirmation hearing to become head of the cia is drawing an unusual amount of interest and attention. Well get to what he said and the reaction at the top of the show. Also, more and more people on the right are asking, who is karl rove and why should we listen to him anymore . Rove wants electable republicans nominated. The tea partiers want their people in, real right wingers, and theyre trashing rove and Establishment Republicans in the process. Plus, youve probably heard that chuck hagel once said the following, quote, the jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here. Im not an israeli senator. Im a United States senator. But what you probably havent heard is the rest of that interview and why some people who know what hagel really said arent angry with him at all. And why is Chris Christie talking so much about his weight . Maybe because he wants to talk about it on his terms, and why