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Least this week than a lot of people think, which is i think there is probably a short term deal at the last minute to keep the government open, maybe just for a few weeks, though. part of the problem, at least for democrats is that the debt limit deadline is a little later in october. if they want republicans to feel the heat, they're not feeling it now. what i expect to happen is on monday the bill will fail. the risk to doing that is republicans may not change their mind which increases the prospects of a default and hamstring the rest of your agenda to keep the government open. >> you go f...

Is not going to happen because congress doesn't have to now. the heat is off. they always do something on christmas eve eve. there's a backstop that forces them to do something. there isn't that. i talked to somebody today who has been lobbying very hard on the dreamers. i said what is your -- is your mechanism now? they said there is nothing you could do. >> that's what we hear with a shutdown. >> this is a showdown. >> right. we managed from cliff to cliff to cliff. >> i'm a deadline worker so i understand this problem. it is not just that they -- the courts took away the deadline because th...

Congress that exists of two parties, those few left that are willing to find that common ground and the tea party that keeps tugging them to the right. one side or the other has to win the republican civil war so we know who to negotiate with. house democrats have to win the majority in 2014 so that we can move this country forward and not go from cliff to cliff. what happened to the house center aisle caucus in 2010? you're exactly right. why isn't it still existing? in 2010 moderate republicans lost their elections, moderate democrats got swept out by tea party fanatics. ever since then we'v...

As a matter of fact, you have to be pessimistic. you see us lurching from cliff to cliff. if you see us getting passed this one, how can you be convinced we're actually passed it. there's going to be a debt ceiling coming up, there's going to be a fight over the sequester, at some point, when that is supposed to kick back in. this is no way to run a railroad. and it's certainly no way to run the united states of america. >> is there any reason to believe, ryan, it will be any different i.? that will be more democrats in the 113th congress? is it going to make any difference? >> the one thing t...