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November or could it inadvertently help the dems? >> it's hard to say. look, it's not a bad strategy for republicans to go after obamacare. i'm not sure that i was on board when they took the 30th or the 40th vote against repeal. but the game changer was when the rollout was just so disastrously bad. they got lucky on that. a lot of people who may have otherwise been inclined to support obamacare sort of thought that republicans had a point after that. so i think that there is definitely an opening for 2014 on this issue. the question as you said, it can't just be being the party of no health ...

If democrats don't give them their way on obama care. so how were congressional republicans justifying this 40th vote to repeal owe bam a ma care? what is the point? >> look, i don't think this is necessarily about getting rid of obama care. i think what republicans see is a huge federal bureaucracy that's being implemented. there's already trouble with that implementation given the delay on the requirement to provide health insurance. they think this will be the train wreck that they have suggested it could be. and so when that happens, they say we have been working for years to stop this fro...

This was the 40th time they voted to repeal the president's health care law before heading home for a five-week summer vacation. as the obama care repeal has no chance in the democratically controlled senate. is that what this 40th vote on repealing obama care is all about? >> republicans aren't unify on a number of things but there is the one thing there's a lot of unity on repealing this law. now they have something to go back to their constituents to say we're fighting against the washington establishment.

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That eliminated funding for food stamps, assessed the president's proposal to be one that leaves small businesses and american families behind. worth noting -- this is the same speaker of the house who shot down a minimum wage increase earlier this year calling it "a job killer." after thumbing their noses at the president's offer this morning, house republicans are now returning to their main legislative priority -- a 40th vote to cripple president obama's health care law. joining me today, political editor and white house correspondent at the huffington "post," sam stein, also an msnbc contr...