democratic party s ability to retake the house in november. the growing progressive insurgency presents serious questions for the democratic party as it continues its leftward movement. let s ask our political panel about this. a republican consultant who has worked on gingrich, carson and ryan campaigns. and a former legislative and policy director to chuck schumer and co-founder of third wave. jim, you re up first. you read the op-ed. he said the far left of the party is winning all the primaries and it will hurt the party in november. schoen is wrong. i represent the moderate ring of the democratic party and i can tell you i m ecstatic with the way the elections have gone so far, especially the primary elections for house and senate and governors races. i m a little baffled by the
i love you. it wasn t edge equation. it was about paying down the debt. and what happened? we balanced the budget, paid down the debt. how? by bringing democrats to their knees. i you know i m joking, steny. we worked together. joe, hold on. it s an interesting analogy. gingrich made a deal with clinton. that was important. his right wing at that point in time in the party, you remember it. right now obama says he doesn t want to negotiate. clinton did negotiate. my point is the argument was about level of funding to balance. yeah. now the number that was sent you re taking the number. it s just in the c.r., not for the fiscal year. so it s not a long-term number for them or for us. it s a bridge to have a discussion. that s what the president wants to do. that s what he said he wants to do. we have tried to go to the
all right. this is what gingrich and clinton were able to do. i know chuck todd remembers this. gingrich would go down to the white house and say, you know, you ve got to help me . scarborough, salmon, steve largent, those guys are crazy. help me . clinton would be like, i understand they re crazy, what do you need. they worked together to try ang late us and clinton would give gingrich things to come back and tell the rest of the house republicans. so they would stampede over us. and barack obama has the to realize whether he likes him or not, he s a partner with john boehner. if he want it is government to work he s got to find a way to help john boehner out of the corner. so enough of the caucus does what they did to us. boehner needs to understand he need s the president. julie pace, thank you very much. chuck, thank you as well. chuck, what s coming up at
joe wasn t as tough. he talks a tougher game than he plays. he plays a reasonable game ultimately. that will hurt him. he just talked about the right wing nuts that were tough on gingrich. yeah . we ran him out of town. yes. we were tough. they ran him out of town and the result of the deal with clinton gave us four years of budget balance. thanks to the republicans. coming up, are americans gaming the system? why one say 60 minutes had an amazing story last night about the disability racket. stick around.
runner. mitt romney, less jobs, more of the same. rick santorum, a bold plan for the middle class. newt gingrich says he likes talking about bold solutions. with many experts suggesting time is running out on gingrich s campaign, he tried to adjust the game clock a bit. i m staying? the race cause i want to see if i can t in the second half of the race, louisiana is sort of half time. i want to see if we can t reset this whole race around the idea of really big ideas. louisiana primary is a week from saturday, which means if you agree with gingrich s thinking, there is still time until half time. that may be critical because polls out of louisiana suggest gingrich is running third behind santorum and romney. bret? bret: thank you. rod blagojevich is about to spend his first night in prison. blagojevich left his chicago home this morning and arrived in colorado a few hours later. he then began his 14-year sentence for corruption at a minimum security facility in suburban denv