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Boehner, who? there is nobody else to consolidate around. thats his biggest -- >> would anyone else want it? >> thats the other thing. once you get into leadership its weird. remember how steve skolise was a raging conservative. now hes in leadership. >> weve seen this movie so many time times before. we saw it during the debt ceiling, during the budget shutdown during the payroll tax increase bill. the speaker needs to get a bill through his conservative caucus they balk, he is embarrassed abou...

That is we cant trust the president. so therefore we cannot move forward on immigration reform, which is trying to put the blame on him when in reality a lot of this is being driven by their internal politics. >> greg sergeant analyzes this is cantors attempt to deflect from the fact hes proposed legalizing the dreamers and thats not been met with cheers in his party so he has to take a hard tact against the white house. >> you know, leadership thought this winter they were going to be bring tog...

Replace it entirely with many reforms for our health care program. we want every arkansasen, we ant every american to have quality, affordable access to health care." "many reforms for our health care program." that is a new one. whats missing in that non-answer is, of course, a very clear answer to the question. would you get rid of the medicaid expansion in your state? yes or no? and herein lies what i think we have found to be the soft underbelly of the anti-obamacare republican candidates th...

We want every arkansasen, we ant every american to have quality, affordable access to health care." "many reforms for our health care program." that is a new one. whats missing in that non-answer is, of course, a very clear answer to the question. would you get rid of the medicaid expansion in your state? yes or no? and herein lies what i think we have found to be the soft underbelly of the anti-obamacare republican candidates this year. it is the medicaid expansion. with a hat tip to "the washi...

Us tonight. i want to read to you what senator patty murray said to "washington post" to greg sergeant, the plum line blog there earlier today. she said "with this vote the era of economic hostage taking and ransom demands should finally be behind us." do you agree with her? is this era now officially over? >> well, i agree with her that it should be behind us. it remains to be seen. this has been a pretty unpredictable republican conference. what today shows is that even speaker boehner, when p...

Senator patty murray said to "washington post" to greg sergeant, the plum line blog there earlier today. she said "with this vote the era of economic hostage taking and ransom demands should finally be behind us." do you agree with her? is this era now officially over? >> well, i agree with her that it should be behind us. it remains to be seen. this has been a pretty unpredictable republican conference. what today shows is that even speaker boehner, when push came to shove, you got to give him ...

>> you know, one of the problems is this is no longer jon huntsmans republican party. it is not a party of where -- which is dominated by problem solvers. im concerned about it. you know, greg sergeant at "the washington post" had a really interesting post today. looking at public opinion data that shows that the partys positions now are dominated by tea party republicans but these are not positions that are shared by the rest of the republican party. so what we have is an insurgent radical forc...

For large numbers of people and opening things up but lets face it, we are also going to have states including those where they are actively undermining it where it isnt going to be working so well. >> on that point, then, because today was sort of a day where you have this confluence in washington about the political damage for democrats from the rollout problems they have had so far. in the headline from this cnn poll that came out, in the generic ballot, republicans have recovered. if you dig...

Raise for themselves, and they vote against the minimum wage, thats a pretty hard one to defend, as you can guess. >> i know youve also been talking, you did a great interview with greg sergeant at "the washington post" the last couple of days about the prospect of expanding social security, the sort of beltway common wisdom about social security is the only way to go is for it to be shrunk and attacked. youre talking about expanding social security and recalibrating the whole debate around that...

Republicans, particularly those on the ballot, or those who will be on the ballot, especially when you link a number of republicans who voted for a pay raise for themselves, and they vote against the minimum wage, thats a pretty hard one to defend, as you can guess. >> i know youve also been talking, you did a great interview with greg sergeant at "the washington post" the last couple of days about the prospect of expanding social security, the sort of beltway common wisdom about social security...