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Are cutting $32 billion because that's what we can manage. when it comes push to shove, doesn't look like boehner has control over members, perhaps due to how he runs the place, perhaps to who the members are. that means when it comes down to the tough work of being leader, getting people to sign onto a tough compromise in order to govern, i don't think if i were republican i would be terrifically confident in boehner's ability to do that tonight. >> in policy terms, the bill that they have more than 400 amendments to today, this is their big spending bill, their big continuing resolution. i m...

Here. one is that some of the things he's failing at are atemgts to restrain his own party. when you said he brought down the pledge to cut $100 billion, they went through the whole thing, it was annualized pledge, because they were only cutting for the last six or seven months. but i am happy for them not to cut that much from the discretionary budget in the middle of the year, that means nobody checks whether or not my meat is safe. i think he's doing a good job on that front. the second thing, you see that spending bill with 400 amendments. boehner is doing something difficult here, trying ...

That's what we can manage. when it comes push to shove, doesn't look like boehner has control over members, perhaps due to how he runs the place, perhaps to who the members are. that means when it comes down to the tough work of being leader, getting people to sign onto a tough compromise in order to govern, i don't think if i were republican i would be terrifically confident in boehner's ability to do that tonight. >> in policy terms, the bill that they have more than 400 amendments to today, this is their big spending bill, their big continuing resolution. i mean, they've gotten through four...

About $30 billion. and after emergency meeting last week, pumped that number up to $61 billion. what they promised was 100. no, sorry, didn't mean it. now today more. this is the kind of thing that beltway media supposedly loves, but nobody is saying bleep about it. under john boehner, republicans promised to bring open rules back to the house, essentially meaning that democrats would be able to offer amendments on bills and they wouldn't limit debate. after breaking this pledge for most of the last few weeks, republicans under john boehner today finally decided to allow open rules. what they ...

He's failing at are atemgts to restrain his own party. when you said he brought down the pledge to cut $100 billion, they went through the whole thing, it was annualized pledge, because they were only cutting for the last six or seven months. but i am happy for them not to cut that much from the discretionary budget in the middle of the year, that means nobody checks whether or not my meat is safe. i think he's doing a good job on that front. the second thing, you see that spending bill with 400 amendments. boehner is doing something difficult here, trying to run a more open house. trying to l...