you know, i have no reason to think he was dishonest but shouldn t have said it if he wasn t sure it had to do with the sequester and the issue the white house is wrestling with. the president s tone today seemed to be saying, well yeah, we won t fall a cliff. not the end of the world. this is a dumb thing but it s not going to turn our lives upside down. markedly different tone than the sunday shows the last week and i think that they haven t been entirely consistent in the message and may confuse people and the big risk for them here is that, again, as i said a minute ago and alluding to it, the sequester unfolds and people don t notice the big hit in the daily lives, maybe people say, geez, there really is a lot of fat in government and we can be making cuts like this and republicans kind of have a point. that s the nightmare case for democrats. you know, but it really does sound like there s real pain and people will start to notice this
before too long and not going to happen right away. psychology of how people experience again is going to drive the process. it s unpredictable and possible that the white house overhipd it a little bit. thank you very much. thanks, guys. pleasure. up next, survive the sequester and get set for government shutdown. sounds like surviving a car crash to find a boulder racing towards your head but at least you have the cycle.
component. just strict spending cut this is very, very easy for obama to draw the same line on i would say that bill clinton drew in 1995. i would sooner shut down the government as bad as that is than sign a bill this disastrous to hurt this many people and the polls showed that country s on clinton s side heading in to that. national parks close and took three or four days for republicans to fold. i don t know how it will play out. the big question is how much people feel the pain. how much are they really impacted and feel frightened by the cuts. open question on the sequester but the government shutdown we have examples to look back. there was an opportunity to choose his own cuts and didn t say no thanks. lots of strings. i ll veto that. the point of the sequester, of course, put in place originally, the reason democrats agreed for revenue and spending addressed. the republicans said only spending and not touch defense we gave them that s a hell of an opportun
congress, right? absolutely right. go to serve for the people, for the family s. that s right. looking down the road, people haven t really focused on the sequester. they haven t understood what it is. it s not a real impact. that is going to start to change next week. people are going to start getting furlough notices, a lot of cuts will be felt april 1. i think that changes the dynamic some but there s an argument that the democrats can then force or threaten a government shutdown over the continuing resolution. i don t see that as being a particularly great point of leverage. democrats have this sort of moral authority with regard to these false faux crises where it s been the republicans pushing the country to the brink over the debt ceiling and over shutdowns. this time i think the optics would be that the republicans passed a continuing resolution and the democrats are demanding something or else they ll shut the government down. i don t know that democrats can even hold
those guys are just not willing to pick that fight right now and boehner in particular. i keep coming back to this. really key thing to remember is that boehner i think would be in real danger of losing the speakership if he cut the kind of deal the president is talking about and always remember that mitch mcconnell keeping an eye on what s happening in kentucky with an election coming up so i think it s fanciful thinking. i m sorry you didn t talk about obama talked about the jedi mind meld. that s a good one. i mentioned the decision to release illegal immigrants before the sequester happened and you had arne duncan getting four pinnochios on his claim that teachers had already gotten pink slips because of the sequest sequester. do you think there s a negative backlash effect against the president or democrats for this sort of political grand standing on the sequester. yeah. that was definitely on duncan s part seemed careless, sloppy.