something dealt with through appropriations. it s questionable exactly how in legal language they could get something through the senate to do this. so i expect that there will be some result. congress is incredibly gifted at both creating these cliffs and then finding ugly ways out of them. do you see do you see michael sounds, i won t say bullish, but not bear not necessarily bearish on that looming deadline. how do you feel about it? i think he s right. i think that it s going to be very hard to do this. if you defunded the homeland security agency or let that funding expire, the people who claim they don t want any immigrants are basically opening the borders, so i think they re in a rough spot. but i think we ve got to get one through the one that ends on monday before we think about february 27th. a very fair point, thank you
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we can moan and grown about free speech and i of course would never support this kind of approach, but the fact of the matter is this is a dangerous bill for the united states because of what they have done to allow the banking sector to continue to abuse their position as essentially an oligopaly. that is not something that s popular on the right or the left. yeah, john, to that end a lot of discussion and analysis about where democrats are at but the unspoken story line is not that the white house was on board with this but that establishment republicans were pushing to get an omnibus spending bill through congress in advance of them taking over both houses of congress. that is a testament to just how scared mitch mcconnell and john boehner are of their far right flank, is it not? it is. the interesting thing to me about that is this has been a position that boehner and mcconnell have been in now for four years. and they see that it s not going
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to go away next year. they wanted to try to get the bulk of the government funded for a while so when they go into this fight in february over the deportation rules that they only have a smaller piece to deal with, which is still going to be a mess for them. the other interesting thing is that you re starting to now see a bit of a mirror of that on the democratic side and both leaderships will have to struggle with this, i think, in the first couple months of the new congress. that is going to be the biggest change in the dynamic. whereas it s always been the last couple years republicans have this huge problem on their right. harry reid may now have a pretty big problem of his own on his left. michael, do you think that we re going to see the governor points out that the issue of wall street getting away with being able to bending the law in ways that ordinary citizens can t and financial regulation being eroded in the cromnibus, do you think that this populist strain of the tea p
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you re used to seeing the republicans like this. washington is about lobby, not parties so much. there are a bunch of provisions in that bill that i really do not like. we are moving backwards on wall street reform. wall street has dominated the white house. this is really congress at its absolute worst. there are deep divisions. had i been able to draft my own legislation and get it passed without any republican votes, i suspect it would be slightly different. the 113th congress is wrapping up its lame duck session with a trillion dollar spending package that is nearly in the bag. the senate is in session and majority leader for a little longer, senator harry reid, says he hopes for a vote on the deal today. in a nail-biter late last night the so-called bill passed the house narrowly averting a government shutdown. that was driven in large part by senator elizabeth warren who made no secret for her distaste for the deal. when the next bailout comes, a lot of people
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