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Clown all in the span of a generation. when we think of great congressional leaders, we think of powerful politicians like lbj, the master of the senate, or house speakers like sam raburn, tip oneill or even newt gingrich. all of these leaders had much, much more leverage than boehner." wow! ouch! >> nancy pelosi was a powerful speaker. whats happened? why is john boehner a feckless herder of cats, in your words? >> i think some want to say that boehner is weak or that the republican freshmen ar...

And, again, all due respect, he couldnt be any more wrong. he said, you dont get this done by sitting in a room. yes, you do. yes, you do. youre a businessman. you know. thats how you get the deal done. what can you live with? >> i think the problem, though, that the president may have been alluding to is everything weve just been saying, for him to sit in a room with john boehner doesnt necessarily get the deal done because john boehner doesnt necessarily speak for enough republicans. >> john b...

Do what jim demint did? and thats what i did when i was in congress. >> i think that actually helps boehner. >> why does it help painer? >> because hes drawn a line in the sand for the fiscal conservatives. and it communicates to both the white house and boehner, heres how far you can go. the other side of that is is the proposal that was offered to the president had all these signatures of all the leadership plus paul ryan coming back. so what boehners done is said heres, were as a team includi...

To be in the middle because theyre starting from these positions. i have a feeling that when a deal is done -- and i think one will get done, barnicle, i know youre a pessimist, im an optimist -- theyre going to raise that $250,000. that will be a gift to the republicans. and then maybe well see reducing mortgage interest deductions from $1 million, which is how much you can deduct now, to $750,000. it will be somewhere in the middle between those two things. >> second homes, and theres a lot of...

Debt we have. and unless, in my estimation, a lot of economists, youre not going to put us on a path to prosperity unless you take about $9 trillion out over the next ten years. and were barely talking $4 trillion. >> yeah, nobodys talking $9 trillion. >> yeah. and $9 trillion is the only thing that actually solves this. so were sitting here as a country, we have made commitments that have to be rearranged and made more efficient. we have a tax structure that is subpar to what we need for our ec...

Other negotiations. and take everything you say and turn it around. boehner and the republicans have to be aware of where obamas at in his own head and with his colleagues, which is no deal without some increase in rates, or we go over the cliff. >> let me just add one thing. when obama made that initial offer, we talked a little bit about how, you know, it was a wish list. it was ideological, whatever you want to say. i think it actually helped boehner in some respects because it gave him three...

Of 2013 or the fall of 2013 where we work on tax reform. we look at what loopholes and deductions both democrats and republicans are willing to close. and its possible that we may be able to lower rates by broadening the base at that point. >> mike, that, with all due respect to the president of the united states, thats never going to happen. and republicans are not going to raise taxes and say, well, maybe well cut taxes later on. its not going to happen. but i do -- i do sense, in some things ...

About, but it gets to this point, which is republicans dont really want this tax cut fight, even though they know its good for their brand. but they want to figure out a way out of it. and you increasingly see some anonymous republicans quoted in the paper saying lets get rid of this tax cut fight and move to a debt ceiling fight. so now theyre looking at this fallback option where they say well agree to an extension of the bush tax rates below $250,000, push the debt ceiling fight and attach al...

Hes got to realize that boehner is his partner. >> it feels like were at a really critical moment here with respect to boehner. and he can choose one of two paths. he could choose the recalcitrant path, which is perfectly possible, or he can say to himself, okay, i need to build a coalition for the purposes of this fiscal cliff deal. that includes house democrats. and how do i go about doing that without totally alienating the base of my party? and im very curious to see what his next step is be...

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