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Say, a government shutdown, debt ceiling, whatever else theyre getting pressured to do, all boehner has to do is say, look, if your buddy, ted cruz, can come up with a strategy where this can get all the way through and the pressure isnt all on the house, then im willing to do it. and ted cruz cant do that, and they know, the tea party knows that ted cruz will just put all the pressure on house republicans, so theyll say, forget about it. you know what, you know, well pass our bill, you know, so...

Cramer, for the republican party to get candidates who believe the way you do that are obamacare is a pernicious law and should be defunded and basically thrown out? have them run on that ticket, all right? and then win as mr. blakeman suggests. and then accumulate power so that you might do something. but again, president obama will veto. hes in there for three years. going to veto anything. wouldnt that make more strategy cal sense, ms. cramer? >> i think we are fighting on that front, too, we...

Unless john boehner, the house speaker, wants to send another one over to the senate again, forcing the issue one more time. that pushes us closer to this deadline of september 30th, and it hastens a government shutdown. at this point i am told by republican sources on the house side, john boehner is not interested in tempting a shutdown. he continues to say publicly he doesnt want to shut the government down, and hes attempted hes going to work with democrats ultimately to pass a cr and get us ...

High-level meetings havent borne too much fruit. might you expect something from that meeting or is it better that the president lay low on this? >> well, i think, you know, the tendency is to just kind of sit back and watch the republicans cannibalize each other. i think that would be irresponsible. i think the president ought to become engaged. my senator, mitch mcconnell, is in the middle of a very difficult political situation. so one of the people who could actually help negotiate a resolut...

Conference on the house side and attacked you for doing exactly what he said he wanted you guys to do. >> yeah. so this week what we did is we came out with our strategy we were going to vote on the cr to defund obama care. give ted cruz and others what he wanted. several hours later he sent out a press release saying we cant hold the senate were not going to filibuster, were not going fight and the house has to hold. i have to tell you what you should have been on the floor back in the cloak ro...

We see the time remaining on that procedural vote down to zero. whats next is the cr which includes the defund language. we also heard from the congressmen, theyre moving forward with this. whether or not there is a bad after-effect regardless of damage to the brand, will this damage be realized in 2016, especially when were looking at a group, latino americans, who are watching obama care very, very closely. >> they are, richard. the reason is that latinos are the largest number of uninsured in...

But of course we know thats going to be very difficult. >> heres the thing. the reason that the drama seems so high and the reason that people are now going at each other in the public spotlight is everyone understands, they are now all collectively pursuing a doomed strategy. i mean, is that realization dawning on everyone? >> thats exactly right. theres really a strange thing happening within the republican party. we saw in the summer, senator ted cruz went on a nine-city tour with heritage fo...

Act of hostage taking. the republican cr also lays the groundwork for a default on our debt, an unthinkable act, by instituting a pay china first provision. and it fully embraces the dangerous and irrational policy of sequester. this bill enshrines and confirms the descent into an economy-destroying, national security undermining and ineffective rendering of the government that our country and our people need. >> well, steny hoyer all fired up. let me tell you, a lot of people have been fired up...

They have no idea of the gravity of the situation, to quote the music man of the trouble that is contained in this resolution today. it is a wolf in wolfs clothing. the underlying bill to shut down government, the c.r., is reason enough to object to it, because that bill will cost at least a million jobs in the course of the next year. will cost a million jobs. it will not only do that, it will cut our investments in the future in education and biomedical research. the national institutes of hea...

But house leadership can now turn them towards senator cruz. so whenever theyre up against, say, a government shutdown, debt ceiling, whatever else theyre getting pressured to do, all boehner has to do is say, look, if your buddy, ted cruz, can come up with a strategy where this can get all the way through and the pressure isnt all on the house, then im willing to do it. and ted cruz cant do that, and they know, the tea party knows that ted cruz will just put all the pressure on house republican...