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In new york, a conservative journalist. this unnamed house member said i think there is a sense for us to do a clean kr now, what the he ll is this about? who two things, one, do you have any optimism this is going to end soon and, two, do have you any accepts of any sort of bottom-line demands that republicans could make that you could live with that could end this thing? >> no. this is fundamentally a budget dispute t. senate passed the bill for 1.058 trillion dollar congressary spending. you ...

An accountable transparent cr. an accountable transparent process. transparent and fair to hard working taxpayers. fair to future generations, like my grandsons, my nieces, great nieces and nephews who are going to have to pay the bill. lets have an accountable spending process. >> and so representative blackburn is talking about this continuing resolution. the bill that would reopen the doors of the government. she argues that the democrats want the republicans in the house to call a voe on the...

Republicans. democrats, i feel like, believe its an abrogation of the governing process to let this happen at the end of a barrel of a gun. therefore, i really see the only solution as some sort of clean resolution being passed. >> i do disagree with you. i would just go back when president obama was senator obama. he didnt think he was going to vote and didnt vote to raise the debt limit. you know -- >> but there was no chance that we were going to be up against the debt limit when he did that....

Weve got democrats, republicans, and a tea party. and the tea party can now do a whole lot more takeovers running up until 2014 election cycle to show their muscle within the republican party. >> because a clean cr at this point is still just sequester-level funding and still just, you know, for about six weeks, right? were not even talking about a long-term solution. stay right there. we have a little bit more on exactly this. i want to dig in, because i am interested in your point about capito...

Not buckle to a short term deal on the cr and face another compromise on the debt. i think its good. jonathan, im going to call you mr. cape horn and mr. martin to keep us street. mr. capehart, didnt it sound they might be willing to break with the crazies, i dont mean republicans are crazy, i mean the 30 or 40 that wants to say no because of obama. >> i hope youre right. i hope your sense of optimism turns out to be right. a as weve seen time and again, they never seem to be satisfied. every ti...

Pushing back against default. whereas before, that was the thing he wanted to put the obama care stuff right on. he wanted to put it right on the debt ceiling. not the cr. the debt ceiling. target it. >> thats a good point. >> so i think hes moved back a bit according to your piece on the front page is what im talking about. >> i think hes trying to suggest to republicans there too, you might not like me or my tactics, but look, i dont want to see the country default either. i think youre right,...

John boehner who had been in washington for a long time, in power for 20 years. he was first elected to the house in 1990. but boehner never wanted to shut the government down. he crafted a plan that would have passed a clean cr and given his members kind of a show vote on the health care law. baner is a realist. he understands that hes not going to defund the health care law. most sane and pragmatic republicans understand the reality of this. i mean, the votes arent there, as you guys have been...

I dont want anything. >> the whole thing with earmarks, too, the whole spirit of the tea party republicanism is to get rid of government. >> exactly. >> a lot of these tea party conservatives, their districts, thatter people are saying good job, are you sticking it to them. they are being spurned on by the people who sent them there. its a connection. when theyre looking at their calls, theyre not getting the same calls that maybe a senator is getting for the entire state or their democratic col...

>> no, this is an old-fashioned staring contest. the republicans have to get something out of this because they i think half planned and half blundered into this. they need to get something, maybe a delay in obamacare and maybe into the exemption the congress has from parts of obamacare. if they just send over a clean one, all of this will have been for nothing. >> if they just send over a clean one, why not a clean cr? whats up with that? >> again because that would mean -- this is like the shi...

That said, this debt ceiling shows the perils of doing your thinking by being against whatever wall street is for. >> yes. >> because it is seriously dangerous. do you agree with that? >> i do. and that i think that shedding the first step in sort of reforming the republican party has been shedding the addiction, the dependence on "k" state. the next step is going to be getting -- not driving yourself down cul-de-sacs as i believe cruz has done, and i basically agree with what bob was just sayin...