maybe this is why john boehner s approval rating is 18%. talking about the president s first 100 days what about the republicans first 100 days? what does my party do to resurrect itself and stop a complete democratic monopoly in this town? there s only one thing they want to do cut spending. if that means shut down the government, shut down the government. i think in williamsburg we saw one possibility, which was paul ryan and others within the republican party saying to the caucus, we can t win this fight publicly. let the debt ceiling go because we re going to be blamed for the economic fallout. let s push that down the road kick the can down the road, as they say, and try to get some budget out of the senate and try to get some real spending cuts in the next three months. so paul ryan and others within the caucus are seeing a longer game here than is this freshman senator from texas. but if you ask paul ryan what he wants to do on gun control, he would say, i don t want to d