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really object to making the catholic church swallow this kind of policy that it opposes deeply on moral grounds. 77% of catholic women agree with this. i went to the catholic church, i attended mass with my wife. this wasn t mentioned. these are people that are never going to like the president any way because they happen to be conservative. the whole catholic church, the whole hierarchy doesn t like the president. the overwhelming percentage of women surveyed in the catholic church favor this measure. i know but the catholic church doesn t run on polls, alan. and you re not a bishop, you re not a pope, you don t get to dictate what catholic morality is. that is not your business or the business of of the federal government. the catholic church can t dictate to the government what it wants done. this is a massive over reach that is clearly a violation of the religious freedom restoration act which bill
our, you know, raising the deficit, the debt limit here. no other country does this. i mean how idiotic this is is rather stunning when we ve seen these men given over to bickering. this is supposed to be the most powerful country in the world, and yet we can t have do what other countries do, which is raise a debt limit when you know you re about to exceed it. crystal, when we talk about mitch mcconnell and the possibility of some of the circumventing tactics he s taking around reid to get to the white house and get to biden, do you think that s underlying pressure that s getting to him because he knows that reid doesn t have the votes and he feels that he s got to get something done? well, i think he thinks he can get a better deal from the president and the vice president than he can with harry reid. and i suspect he sees four members of his own caucus have already defected. there are several more that are
mcconnell knows that, that s why mcconnell keeps daring him to hold the vote right now, reid doesn t have the votes right now, but i think reid thinks maybe in the next five or six hours i can get the votes. i m getting close, that s a little bit of this games manship going on between mcconnell and reid right now, but at the same time, there s back channel talks. that said, everything i hear is that while they may get close to having a framework for what the final deal may look like, i don t think we re going to get the announcement of the deal tonight. the question is, does reid trust that the deal will happen and not hold his vote tonight or does he go forward anyway? and that s what we don t know. mike viqueira at the white house, the white house has taken some criticism over the last week from both sides saying they have been uninvolved, that they have not been hearing from them. how involved is the white house now, and especially as chuck is pointing out, if we re able to pick o
doesn t want taxes to be part of the trigger. what they re talking about is the particulars, sort of so how do you guarantee that second round of deficit reduction if the joint committee fails, which, of course, is where they ve been stuck for three weeks. the president and boehner were stuck on it, reid and mcconnell were stuck on it. boehner and reid were stuck on it. this has been the sticking point for so long. now, what mcconnell does want here, there is a little bit of a game of leverage still going on, believe it or not at the last minute. reid has the leverage, he doesn t want to give it up. mcconnell wants him to give his bill up, so that they force more of the compromise that apparently mcconnell and biden, at least a framework of a compromise may have been agreed upon. he wants to force that to go. reid doesn t want to give that up, reid has been making progress picking off individual republicans. he doesn t have it yet, and