country. >> john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis is getting close to graduating into the john boehner is bad at his job working theory of understanding washington. joining us now is "washington post" columnist and msnbc policy analyst ezra klein. ezra, good to see you. thanks for being here. >> good evening. >> why are we seeing this level of discord among republicans on the hill? it seems in part to be logistics. they do not know what they are doing. or what they're supposed to be doing next. it does also seem to be some policy incoherence here. >> there was a bit of a collision on the racetrack here. on the one hand, republicans want to oppose things that barack obama would like to do. that president obama would like to do. on the other hand, republicans would like to pass tax cuts. you see it most clearly in the case of something like the "wall street journal." that is the business wing of the republican party. the business wing of the republican party doesn't like barack obama very much but they really don't want their taxes to go up. they really don't want to pay more to employ workers, they don't want to have a hit to consumer demand next year.