we have this thing called tape, digital tape. we can go right to it. yes, and that clearly shows bias, neil. you should not be using those clips. no, that s a perfect example of the blame shifting. that has gone on in this white house. all presidents do it to a certain degree, but it s not attractive. it doesn t help them. presidents never seem to understand what i think kennedy understood, what truman understood, what reagan understood. and iran/contra, for example, you take responsibility. you take the blame. it actually helps you. people respect you for taking that blame. i was thinking going after republicans. wish we had a little more time. the bottom line is they screwed up. even the tone of his press conference today. look, the republicans are opposite. so they could be opposite over cooling it on spending but democrats are not when they re just as obstinate on not cooling
the events is chief eric ericsson who tweeted holy cow, the meltdown from republicans is astounding. joining me, the ranking member of the house budget committee, what is going on down there? well, chris, that was a great lead-in. look, two things happened today. the first thing is that john boehner went eyeball to eyeball with the tea party folks in his caucus and john boehner blinked. now the news is official, john boehner has turned the gavel of the house over to the tea party faction. that is one thing, the second thing is, really they want to turn this thing over in senator ted cruz lap, saying the monkey is in your lap. you watch it. it would be fun except the consequences could be really bad for the country and the american people. i want to make an argument for why the consequences may be good in a moment. but first, in terms of the pre-emptive blame shifting, heritage action john boehner
it would be fun except the consequences could be really bad for the country and the american people. i want to make an argument for why the consequences may be good in a moment. but first, in terms of the pre-emptive blame shifting, heritage action john boehner says all right, buddy, you get this. this is the ted cruz hilarious passive/aggressive statement. at this point, republicans must stand firm, hold their ground and continue to listen to the american people, as in sorry, bro, we can t get this done. to which john boehner says we trust the republicans in the senate will put up a fight worthy of the challenges that obama proposes. the fight over the continuing resolution, the budget shutdown, rather than a month when the full faith and credit is on the line.
you watch it. it would be fun except the consequences could be really bad for the country and the american people. i want to make an argument for why the consequences may be good in a moment. but first, in terms of the pre-emptive blame shifting, heritage action john boehner says all right, buddy, you get this. this is the ted cruz hilarious passive/aggressive statement. at this point, republicans must stand firm, hold their ground and continue to listen to the american people, as in sorry, bro, we can t get this done. to which john boehner says we trust the republicans in the senate will put up a fight worthy of the challenges that obama proposes. the fight over the continuing resolution, the budget shutdown, rather than a month when the full faith and credit is on the line. well, chris it would be
speak. but, karen, on your point before i go to that, you say the blame shifting is a pointless exercise. it is a pointless exercise because we ve had a number of reports both from the congressional research service and the congressional budget office that have pointed out that different parts of what republicans are fighting for in terms of their ideas about territorial tax policy with regard to multinational corporations or this idea that tax breaks at the top trickle down, that those just aren t true. that there s no evidence to suggest that that works. so here they are digging their heels in, going to the mattresses fighting for economic policy that we know does not help the middle class, will not help our economy. right. okay. well, we re watching katherine mcmorris rogers, who is the first speaker at the microphone. we promise we will bring the scintillating speaker john boehner as soon as he arrives at the microphone. clarence, republicans new favorite journalist appears to