For our next 45 minutes, we are interested in hearing from republicans only. The acttalk about itself, the larger implications of the funding of the health care law, but we want to get your thoughts on our phone line. Heres how you can do so. It is republicans only. If you live in the eastern and central time zone, it is 202 5853880. If you live in the pacific or Mountain Time zone, it is 202 5853881. You can reach us on twitter and facebook as well. Morning,he paper this this is the wall street journal writeup of this telephone meeting, teleconference, that took place with the House Speaker. Spending billt l to avoid shutdown. They write that and goes on to highlight that mr. Boehner met objections from several conservatives we want to get your thoughts on this reported effort by House Speaker boehner to propose a plan to keep the government from shut down. Ins as Congress Comes back september to debate these issues. If you want to give us a call, heres how you can do so. Two lines to choose from. If you live in the eastern and central time zone, 2025853880. If you live in the mountains and pacific time zones, you can call at 2025853881. We told you about this letter that came out by republicans. This was pushed by come pushed by mark metals of california. It says part of that letter, you can find it on his website this morning. It says we urge you to affirmatively defund the implementation and enforcement of obamacare in any relevant appropriations. James madison wrote in that her list 58 in federalist number 58 that was signed by the representative mark metals and others joining him in that effort. We urge you to call our phone line to get in our phone line again. Because this is a gop spurred efforts we want to hear from republicans only this morning. 3880 if you live in the eastern and central time zone. 3881 if you live in the mountain and pacific time zone. You can also reach out to us on facebook and twitter. Some of the analysis that is being done, especially from this call that took place last night with the speaker. Some of it is written up by the Huffington Post this morning. It starts, in part, by looking at a letter that was sent by the ofresentative, mark Meadows North carolina. During the call, one member if youpeaker boehner defund obamacare. Another would ask him he would get a short term spending past. It goes on to talk about it this morning as well. It was during this bus tour that president obama mentioned the efforts, talking about the larger issues of College Funding and those kinds of things. He also talked about spending efforts and efforts by the republicans on these matters. He the he made his thoughts known on it. [video clip] we had to make some modifications when it comes to longterm entitlement programs of a are here for young people when they are ready for retirement. We dont have an urgent deficit crisis. The only crisis we have is one that is manufactured in washington. It is ideological. We basic notion is that should not be helping people get healthcare and we should not be helping kids who cannot help themselves and whose parents are under resourced and we should not be helping them get a leg up. Some of the proposals we have seen talk about even deeper cuts in programs like head start. Even deeper cuts in education and support, even deeper cuts in basic science and research. That is like eating your corn seed. It is like being penny wise and pound foolish. If young people are not succeeding, if we are not spending on research and maintain our technological edge, if we are not upgrading our roads and bridges and our transportation and infrastructure, all things we can afford to do right now and should be doing right now and would put people to work right things we dont do those in 20 years from now or 30 years from now we will have fallen behind. Host that is during course of president obamas college tour. The numbers are on the screen. On twitter you can make your thoughts on the phone line as well. As far as the political strategy is concerned, thecleveland. Com says phone lines are available, they mentioned the strategy behind this. The wall street journal story picks up on that. Eric cantor said caller i got a call from the Republican Party asking me to contribute money. I told the woman to stop reading from the script and i asked her a bunch of questions, such as why is boehner a political coward . Why wont he fight obamacare . Why wont he defund it . I have no use for the Republican Party anymore. Theyre afraid of obama are afraid of being called racist. These people, i would consider it a compliment if i was called a racist. I disagree with obamas policies. I have absolutely had it. I am more of a tea party type person. The only reason i am registered republican, because of the state of maryland, you have to be either one or the other to vote in the primaries. Boehner is a coward and i have no use for him that includes i wonder if he was affected by the prison there. They must have really taught him good. He is sure going against our wishes. Host michael in ohio, you are up next. I am an Orthopedic Surgeon who is being driven out of business on the first of september by the obamacare law. Obamacareonly the law, it is a thing called a hightech act. Againstsed penalties physicians. It used to be they could audit to you and charge you up to 100 per every feed it would find on an audit. They have raised that limit to 50,000 per item on an audit. All these people talking about the funding obamacare, i do not think they have to concern themselves about politics. The bill will die because doctors like me are being driven out of business. What do you think about the strategy of the gop leader trying to avoid a shutdown of government. Caller shutting down government is going to be a negative for republicans. The way that the democrats will use that against them is they just cannot afford to do that right now. The bill is going to die itself. Most of the people that are going to going to these exchanges are going to be forced onto medicaid. In my own office we had to drop medicaid five years ago. It pays 60 . Eventually this is going to die. They cannot pay a doctor less than what it costs to run its office. Plan to possibly avoid Government Shutdown, results of a telephone conversation that House Speaker had with other gop members had with other gop members last night. It is reported in the wall street journal and other publications. We are taking calls from republicans only today. Heres john from pennsylvania. Caller thank you so much for taking my call. Theree with some he things two previous caller said. The main thing a conservative republican myself has is i do not have any faith in the republican leadership, whether it is in the house of representatives or in the senate. They seem to be very afraid of being called names. They seem afraid of being the opposition party. The Government Shutdown is a good thing from my perspective. They need to put the American People say we have a budget issue. Every couple of years we have a debt ceiling and yet the republicans act like they are democrats. They continued the spending like it is the majority party. As a conservative republican, i am for a shutdown to discuss the issues we have. The republicans and democrats are acting the same and my party is acting as though they are the democrats. You may have heard the previous caller. He said it would be bad for everyone involved. Host that would shake that party up, one who acts like they are the democrats. If that turns out to be the case, which i do not believe for a second, i think it would be good for the republicans. What do we do to grow businesses and jobs and not create more worthless spending. If it is bad for the republicans, that is a good thing. We can get some new republicans and their who act like republicans 50 years ago. Gloria is up next from wyoming. Good morning. Caller i will comment on boehner. I had seen an ad that obama put on. He was talking about infrastructure, talking about all of this and talking to some of the younger people. To tell him is talking about the obamacare, their insurance is going to be sky high. The college in the research and all that, it would be far better and doh the young people an honest ways job for an honest days wage. Back to the republican thing, im kind of with the other three colors. I think obama is pretty slick tongued and the republicans are standing up to it. What do you think the benefit of a shutdown would be . Caller i do not think it would be a node that i do not think it would be a good thing. Theything they have tried, people arent recognizing it. The republicans arent totally at fault. They seem to be lording it over the senate. Anything goes through, he blocks it. He is the only party there. I am nonplussed as to what they can do but they should do as much as they can. Host we are asking republicans only to weigh in on this plan that resulted as a phone conversation with gop leaders. More on the wall street journal this morning, according to it would for to a shutdown according to the authors by deferring the phone numbers are on the screen. This is bill with palm beach florida. Good morning. Caller good morning. Good discussion this morning. I just wanted to make a couple of points here briefly. I think that a lot of the problems seem to stem that power is so concentrated in washington. It really does lead to a paralysis. I think you can see that in the scope and size of both the obama care bill and the dodd frank bell. Whatever rules they do follow are subject to interpretation later on. When you get back to obamacare, what they have done is take a problem that may have affected 15 of the population. They have gone and basically dismantled it for the other 85 . Granted, costs are high. If you really look at the culprit, any time you get into a system with the Government Back up whether it is the mortgage crisis or the education crisis or no healthcare, all these prices get distorted and inflated because what you have is a guaranteed payer. In that case and in that sense people can always raise prices. The yield a thing i can think of is the powers have become so concentrated and every Major Corporation on a worldwide basis needs to influence our politicians to get to our markets. I think what they really need to do is push this all back to the states. The closer it is to the people the easier it is control. Thank you for your time, that is all have to stay all i have to say. Host in the wall street journal this goes next restore you have probably seen in the papers as well, about san diego mayor bob filner about his resignation. Lans we will go to our next call, pat in new jersey. Good morning. Caller good morning. Have beenublican, i one for probably over 40 years. I am also a nurse. I am in favor of the obamacare. What people fail to realize is that in this country there are thatmany middle americans cannot afford insurance. They go without care. They do not qualify for medicaid and they do not qualify for other assistance. If we were to take and make this a possibility to purchase at a reasonable price, you wouldnt have that many medicaid people. Thewould be giving people ability to take care of their families and it is not going to make it a welfare country. Host talk about the tactic of the shutdown to keep obamacare from being funded. I really feel that that is an irresponsible way of treating the citizens of our country. It looks to me that when republicans cannot get their way , they are going to get rid of obamacare anyway they can. They do not care. They not care about the person. They only care about their power. Host here is tyler from texas. Caller regarding boehner being the leader. He is not the leader. Mcconnell is not either. Teddy cruz is the one who is going to bring this thing home. , heas not been wrong yet knows the constitution better than anybody up there. He is fighting this obamacare thing. It is our last chance to move government overreach. Host why are they not being leaders in this case . Night jimesday demint, ted cruz, and rafael were in dallas, and the night before they were in arkansas. The people have to rise up. We are the government, not those guys. Ted is trying to help us take our country back. Host the caller brings up senator cruise speaking at a fundraiser in New Hampshire senator ted cruise speaking at a fundraiser in New Hampshire. Heres what he had to say. [video clip] we are right now in the middle of a fight. We have the single best opportunity we have had to actually succeed in stopping obamacare. On september 30, 38 days from continuing resolution that funds the federal government expires. I have publicly pledged, along with a number of senators, that under no circumstances will i support a continuing resolution that funds even one penny of obamacare. That a senator ted cruz from yesterday. John is up next. I was talking to a lady earlier about obama care. Is Government Shutdown delaying the whole thing and is going to create more problems. Obama care is going to hurt a lot of people, the elderly and low income people. Anything that is forcing healthcare, it is unconstitutional. If you go back in history and see when the british was forcing all the taxes and everything on it. That is what we fought against. And he how anyhow be the funded . Is i think they need to Work Together and come up with a great plan that will help everybody. I think that is what a lot of people are upset about. Obama needs to realize hes hurting certain people. John from jackson mississippi, good morning. Yes, i am a conservative republican from mississippi. I agree with the doctor earlier. I think obamacare is very bad. It is going to go down naturally. I am not for a Government Shutdown i am for tying it to and doing asing the conservative republicans will done. I think we ought to way entitlements and electric public and in 2014. I am not for a Government Shutdown and i am not for obamacare. I am tying it to the debt ceiling. Host that is the strategy as far as Speaker Boehner is concerned. Caller i think that is what we should do. Eastern and central time zones and mountain pacific time zones are the options. The numbers are on your screen, you can call the one that best represents you. For and worth Foreign Affairs released a story in the Washington Post this morning, talking about a reunion of families on both sides in korea calls, this is john from idaho, good morning. I believe that republicans are missing an opportunity right now to win if wehe government and make president obama passed the health care and not give people vouchers, this was passed for everybody. We all would have have to be subject to its mandates. I think the Republican Party will win out because people can really see what is in this bill. Thank you. Up next fromis grand prairie, texas. Good morning. Caller i was calling about the shutdown. And shell pitas not intended to shutdown the government. That is a load of tripe. The Obama Administration is budgetaryt before the , that is not the republicans fault, that is obamas fault. They need to place that blame where it belongs. Host what should republicans do Going Forward . Caller i believe ted cruz has the right idea. Careed to the fund obama to defund obamacare. Im with ted cruz on that. The u. S. Military has updated options to give president obama a range of when newn a civil war claim services speak about a possible chemical weapon used by the regime. A Defense Department told cnn on friday that a story in the New York Times reacting to what is going on in syria. This is tim out of iraq, writing ginger from winterville, North Carolina. Good morning. Ou are on, go ahead caller i dont think it would be wise to shut the government down because youre accreting people that will be out of jobs. It may be possible it could lower the wages of all the people of all the people in this area. That could be bounced out eventually. I consider that we should not be on obamacare. We should be under god scare. How should the republicans move forward . Caller springs, newratoga york. Caller how come they turned their back on the American People when george w. Bush in the Senate RepublicanBanking Committee set laws forth that we and 114 trillion homes Million People out of work . These are conservative banking laws. Now that obama is trying to change them, the dirty money is taking over. Host your thoughts on the shutdown you go caller on the shutdown . Caller it is a copout. Thoughts can make your known on this phone call conversation that took place with the House Speaker with republicans on the topic of shortterm spending bills to possibly avoid shutdowns. Journal,he wall street a piece on the term of fracking. Fracking over federal proposals is flaring up again. He writes wesley from greenville, North Carolina. Go ahead. Caller i am a black conservative from the state of North Carolina. I support president obama. Would like all republicans to know, we are supposed to be intelligent individuals, and everything you need to know that is going on in our government is on google or any other website that you need to know. Stop leaving everything that you hear. Go out there and investigated for yourself. Understand what youre are talking about, and then proceed to go out there for our government or for europe he sensitive up whichever state your fron you are from. Citizen of the United States and a citizen of the world today. In order for us to move forward we first have to investigate and other and understand what is our role in this government and in this world. Host fred is up next from south a