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November or could it inadvertently help the dems? >> its hard to say. look, its not a bad strategy for republicans to go after obamacare. im not sure that i was on board when they took the 30th or the 40th vote against repeal. but the game changer was when the rollout was just so disastrously bad. they got lucky on that. a lot of people who may have otherwise been inclined to support obamacare sort of thought that republicans had a point after that. so i think that there is definitely an opening...

If democrats dont give them their way on obama care. so how were congressional republicans justifying this 40th vote to repeal owe bam a ma care? what is the point? >> look, i dont think this is necessarily about getting rid of obama care. i think what republicans see is a huge federal bureaucracy thats being implemented. theres already trouble with that implementation given the delay on the requirement to provide health insurance. they think this will be the train wreck that they have suggested...

This was the 40th time they voted to repeal the presidents health care law before heading home for a five-week summer vacation. as the obama care repeal has no chance in the democratically controlled senate. is that what this 40th vote on repealing obama care is all about? >> republicans arent unify on a number of things but there is the one thing theres a lot of unity on repealing this law. now they have something to go back to their constituents to say were fighting against the washington esta...

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That eliminated funding for food stamps, assessed the presidents proposal to be one that leaves small businesses and american families behind. worth noting -- this is the same speaker of the house who shot down a minimum wage increase earlier this year calling it "a job killer." after thumbing their noses at the presidents offer this morning, house republicans are now returning to their main legislative priority -- a 40th vote to cripple president obamas health care law. joining me today, politi...

Not think republicans might consider accepting the law or should we look forward to speaker boehner leading the charge for their 40th vote against it? >> i think theyre a little too smart for that. maybe not. they havent proved that so far. i do think na the public is fed up with them. theyre at 12% in the polls, by far the lowest ever. all they want to talk about is beating up on women and immigrants and gays. i dont see how they are going to help themselves. and there are a number of republica...

Care 39 times. they just announced there will be a 40th vote to do that next week. you know, why not? but in terms of working on their own ideas, the benghazi hearing is pretty much it. this is the most ambitious thing they have done, and the idea here is this was not an attack on the u.s., what happened in benghazi should be seen as a political conspiracy engineered by the obama administration and maybe hopefully by hillary clinton, but maybe only if shes going to run for president. the attack ...

Napolitano about the real bomber and the boston bombing conspiracy coverup, that same congressman has also now sponsored legislation that would get rid of the unemployment rate. it would effectively eliminate the unemployment rate and any measure of economic growth or the size of the economy by prohibiting the census bureau from gathering the information, including the unemployment rate. because who needs that, and besides, that gives them less to manipulate for political purposes. today in cong...

And the boston bombing conspiracy coverup, that same congressman has also now sponsored legislation that would get rid of the unemployment rate. it would effectively eliminate the unemployment rate and any measure of economic growth or the size of the economy by prohibiting the census bureau from gathering the information, including the unemployment rate. because who needs that, and besides, that gives them less to manipulate for political purposes. today in congress, the attack on the diplomati...

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