apocalyptically. welanded the plane. no wings on the plane. but we get off easily. if you want to look at winners, people found out that mitch mcconnell is the most powerful person other than the president. senate majority leinority le. they can do this in quiet. they don t have to be out front. they can be obstructionists when they need to be. they re the linchpin, right? they can control it you re more effective minority leader and you get to the majority and say what happened to this person. no fun being majority leader. i joked with mcconnell s staffers have joked with them, you become a majority leader, i m out of here.
candidates run on voters are stupid. it never works. anybody who thinks that the basic the basic views of these tea party members are out of touch with main stream america are going to be in for a they re going be in for a rude awakening in 2012. that s the reality. a rude awaking. look at the guy look at the guy who lives in brooklyn. i m saying, look, you can t sit there and praise mitch mcconnell and john boehner to criticize those unwilling to compromise. who do we have on the show? one guy who won t be on the supercommittee. no, i have to remember the gang of six. but good luck with these gang of sicks if they can get on. and john cornyn, i ll ask if he would allow any gang of sixers on this deal. so we ll see. thank you. get capes. you get capes with the super committee. they should get capes. yeah.
who didn t get biden involved in the beginning of this process because we think he talks too much and is too easy to cut a deal with. mitch mcconnell said before, he didn t know if a deal was possible as long as barack obama was president. you get mitch mcconnell talking about joe biden. he s like, that s a guy you can deal with. no doubt that mcconnell and biden and reid did this still. he spent a lot of time on the phone. every key juncture, joe biden has been in the middle of it. a lame duck session early on in the administration, a key, key player in terms of dealing with it, especially with the senate. joe biden in the campaign was a punch line. he is he is he s the most critical part of this administration. he knows it players. comes down to personal relationships. knows him better. and how it works with decades of experience. how the game works. we were talking about mitt romney. a lot of people disappointed that he dove in in the last
it won t. wait until you see who s appointed. do you think mitch mcconnell will support them on the gang of six? probably not. exactly. if it did, the entire gang of six were apointed, then you could say, okay. mitch mcconnell and harry reid were serious about doing the big deal. that s guts to do that. those are the six to do that. that s not going to happen. because not this close to the election site. what about the trigger mechanism, the enforcement. that makes it all happy, right? the reason why there was a holdup in the end for the trigger is because everybody expects the trigger to be pulled. it is going to happen. and whether it s the medicare provider, cuts, the pentagon hair cuts which will be tough for members of congress.
the tea parties? i think you can. let s almost half of the people in favor. you have to wrap them out and isolate them and move forward. get ready. hold on a second. i was saying three week ago, i wrote a column about this. the president should have stared them down. he chose three weeks ago not to do that. he made that decision three weeks ago. guess what? any politics on the left or the right can smell weakness. and if lyndon johnson were running a democratic caucus and smelled weakness, he would have eviscerated them. that s politics. and the fact of the matter is, the people in the main stream media can call the tea parties, whatever you want to call them. if they were emboldened, they were not emboldened like a three-day weekend crack bing. they were emboldenened by a sensing of weakness, a president that would not stare them down. there were winners here, right? harry reid was responsible. mitch mcconnell was responsible.