legislation that tears apart families and damages communities. tony perkins organization has been supportive. heritage action has been supportive, because from a compassionate conservative side, it s hard to make a case you should keep the laws in place when they re so hard on members of our society that are most disadvantaged. i interviewed tim lynch and he said the sentences are far too harsh. this is something where libertarians can agree with progressives. how do you go and take that sentiment there from cado, a libertarian leader, and look at what s happening in congress and go beyond a couple progressives and libertarians and get more of a real political alliance. the alliance is fascinating. it s not just bipartisan. it s transidealogical. mike lee and dirk durbin have been talking for a few months about it, putting together legislation. cornyn has legislation that mirrors texas reforms and rand paul and senator leahy, hard to
senate. and probably watch it fail again. because nothing will change these people s minds because they fear the nra so much. last word from you, ryan. this seems to be a general hold the line. whatever trick they can use. and no deal on the budget even if it threatens another government shutdown. therest a group out there on the hard right that doesn t want to ever be caught dealing with obama on anything. right. and the specifics vary depending on the particular issue. this time it happens to be the nra that s wagging the party. but on different issues, it s different powerful groups. but it s consistently the same thing. anything that could get through the senate and get signed by the white house is almost by definition to enough of the wing of the republican party that it doesn t have a chance in the house. mike tomasky, someone said
he is almost as conservative as it can get. where do you draw the line? where do you draw the line and say someone s conservative enough? you know, there has to be a line drawn somewhere. if stockman gets significant support, then it is maybe the death now of the republican party. they can t survive if they keep acting like this. what they ve got to do is freeze this guy out. make sure he gets no money and make sure that john cornyn has a fairly easy route to winning the primary. if they don t, it s literally self-destructive. joan, why doesn t the democratic party seize upon the fact that the republican party is making itself a happy home for some of the nuttiest people in the world? and luckily for the kinds of people i forgot what s her name in nevada didn t make it. and the woman in christine o donnell. christine o donnell doesn t make it, aikin didn t make it. people that are closer to the fringe there. and they didn t make it.
yes, he absolutely in the white house, everybody now there gets the message. you asked earlier why kathleen sebelius or anybody in her department didn t get fired as a result of this. the person who doesn t exist, they can t fire a man or woman who doesn t have an assignment as the direct responsibility to the president. anybody you fire over there who doesn t have a senate confirmation can t be confirmed. this is one you cannot blame on the republicans. you can t blame the rollout on the republicans, but you can suggest why more heads or any heads haven t rolled. do you really believe that? that you can t get rid of someone because the other side might make it harder? you don t need senate confirmation for white house staff. for hhs, for kathleen sebelius s job. it was her department. yeah, i know. so we blame it on the
people. that s not been an issue with mcdonough. he is considered if there s a critique of him internally it s he gets involved in too many things. that if something s going wrong, if somebody doesn t know how to shovel a driveway. he doesn t say let s show you how to do it. he just says give me the shovel, i ll do it. he s almost too stretched is the criticism you hear. why doesn t he fire people that aren t delivering? why doesn t he go to the president say, this person whether it s kathleen sebelius or her coos or somebody else, they re not doing b the job. i m telling you. you re in there, you know it. that this screwup of the rollout is probably a bigger story than passing health care at this point. i don t think it ll be that way in history, but right now it is. right now it is. but this comes from the top. this is not what president obama does. when somebody is going to be fired, it s done so two or three months later. it s the whole no drama obama.