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About over the holidays. thats for sure. you gentlemen are going to be back to work next week. well see what happens. although the hourglass tonight just got turned in a big way. congressman steny hoyer, great to have you with us tonight, sir. >> thanks, ed. appreciate it. howard dean joins me on the epic failure by house speaker john boehner. stay tuned. youre watching "the ed show" on msnbc. sents the cold truth. i have a cold, and i took nyquil, but im still "stubbed" up. [ male announcer ]...

Boehner introduced plan b to save face with his caucus after rejecting an offer by president obama. he should have taken the presidents deal. in a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll it shows that 24% of americans will blame republicans if we go over the fiscal cliff, compared to 19% for the democrats. 58 -- 56% will blame both parties. 38% trust president obama to handle the fiscal cliff. only 19% trust john boehner. and in the wake of tonights developments i would imagine those numbers wou...

Tonight? >> just what steve said. i also doubt his future as spakership pretty seriously. but look, ed, the main thing here, lets not lose focus. the main thing is what the republican harty has just done to the country. these people arent legislators. theyre vandals. this is really outrageous. barack obama moved and moved and moved, you chronicled his steps very well at the top of the show, the changes he made in his approach, the steps he took to go meet boehner halfway, at least halfway. his b...

0 that on the table because that really is a game changer. >> well, were going to find out if speaker boehner wants his job back or if he wants a deal. thats really where we are right now. >> thats about it. youre about right. i agree with you. >> can he go back and get you enough republican votes, mix them in with support of the president over on the democratic side, and come away with something thats going to save a lot of hurt for a lot of people in this country and i think the tea party toni...

0 now. >> thats about it. youre about right. i agree with you. >> can he go back and get you enough republican votes, mix them in with support of the president over on the democratic side, and come away with something thats going to save a lot of hurt for a lot of people in this country and i think the tea party tonight showed that they do not want this president to succeed in any way, shape, or form. they want the economy to go down. and if we go off the cliff there might be a pretty good chanc...

0 hes going to go run a pressure group. his closing words are dont listen to these pressure groups. doesnt really make any sense, right? so thats jim demint. consider also dick armey. former republican congressman who also left to go run a pressure group, a group called freedom works that likes to be known as a grassroots movement, just regular folks who are somehow able to cough up an $8 million golden parachute for dick armey when he announced he was leaving the group this year. diblg armey sa...

Real fiscal conservatives would approximately walk away from this mess. >> karen, does plan b pass tomorrow in the house? >> barely. >> it will pass? >> i think it could pass. look, i think that boehner has the same problem that he has had all along. he cant get anything done without democrats. and that is the dirty little secret. >> first of all, i love the sirens in the background of that press conference. >> well, it is an alarming, no question about it. does plan b pass tomorrow? >> you have...

Again the republicans have taken their oath to grover norquist. the only seal of approval that is necessary in congress is the seal of approval that your constituents give you, that the middle class gives you. and once again, the republicans are letting grover norquist call the shots. secondly, ed, you know, at a certain point, these republicans have to learn how to take yes for an answer. tonight theyre going through these gyrations, these contortions. theyre taking every step they can with hea...

0 and understaffed, it is so atrophied from being politically undermined for so many years that today when the president of the united states said it might be nice to put somebody in charge of that agency officially for the first time in six years, there was nobody home at that agency to comment on that. nobody available this afternoon to handle press inquiries about that rather high profile presidential assertion. if you make a product that is regulated by the government for health and safety r...

0 and attacked and undermined by the gun lobby and the conservative movement that the current interim acting director, because thats all were ever allowed to have anymore is an interim acting director, the current one is a commuter. he is part-time. he also has another job being the u.s. attorney for the state of minnesota. same thing is true at the end of the bush administration. at this time, the atfs interim acting director was also a commuter. he also had another job as a u.s. attorney in bo...