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Calling him out by name, calling again for an up or down vote on a clean budget. today, speaker at the headquarters of fema, the president challenged speaker boehner again to hold a vote! vote on it. straight up budget bill to end the government shutdown. >> truth of the matter is there are enough republican and democratic votes in the house of representatives right now to end the shutdown. immediately with no partisan strings attached. the house should hold the vote today. if republicans and sp...

Asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, just from democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, were going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. lets add representative pat meehan. he put out a statement saying it was time ...

This is not to take away from the great news, for the parents of the 126 infants and toddlers and preschoolers whose parents who work at mit and will matter to david koch when me meets them. if your parents dont work at mit. david koch and his brother have a different message. fund it at ten times the amount. on saturday the day after the david koch puff piece in the "boston globe," north carolina congressman, mark meadows talked to his hometown press. they started asking him about a starring ro...

Conservative organizations demanding a shutdown? would the civil war inside the republican party have peatered out by now in a way less harmful to the country if koch brothers funding were not propping up all these conservative organizations that are rung the ads and demanding the ideological purity and telling republican members of congress they cannot bend, cannot woos out, they cannot compromise or else there will be hell to pay. who knows what mess the republican party would have gotten itse...

Tears at my heart. but do i want to be blamed for a shutdown president? answer is no. so david koch has the ate tear in his eye for families without child care, specific families without child care. mark meadows, the congressman who demanded the shutdown from john boehner said the is pact breaks his hard. breaks his hard. but he does not want to be blamed. you go ahead and ask santa for that and see what you get under the tree. i am not so sure that works everywhere in the country. make it works...

I think meadows and a lot of the tea partiers and ted cruz, they have -- had a strategy. and their strategy led them to this point. they, they didnt have any strategy going forward. you know, repeal obama care is not an actual strategy. thats not going to happen. republican leadership never wanted to get to this point. so, this isnt their strategy either. that is kind of what is upsetting the political balance here. the people who now have the responsibility for getting out of this jam, didnt wa...

Im sure. think whthat would be so cool. until he became the guy with a 21 hour fake filibuster. if you think your state doesnt like the shut down, consider that virginia has 170,000 civilian federal employees. the new plitico poll shows that percentage of virginias is 62%. 62% opposed to the shut down in virginia. who do they blame? they blame congressional republicans by a 15 point margin. perhaps not surprisingly they do not like the instigator of the shut down, who is dead krus.

Going forward. repeal obama care is not an actual strategy. thats not going to happen. republican leadership never wanted to get to this point. so, this isnt their strategy either. that is kind of what is upsetting the political balance here. the people who now have the responsibility for getting out of this jam, didnt want to be in it in the first place. so, you know -- its -- at this, at this point -- its, really difficult to see exactly where this goes. because of that. >> ryan, if they did w...

Not 217 members of the house who will vote for a budget. who will vote for a budget without trying to get rid of obamacare or something. he says he cannot get to 217. lets help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, were going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 de...

He says he cannot get to 217. lets help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, were going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. st...