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Here's the deal that we've cobbled together with erskine bowles and the fact that he came out and rejected it today is that much more embarrassing to them. they are calling it the bowles' plan and bowles came out and said, i don't support this. >> there's a potentially very important development in the house, nancy pelosi saying that she might move to what they call a discharge position. she said, instead of wasting the public's time, house republicans should allow a vote on the senate-passed middle income tax cuts. democrats are filing a position to force a vote on extending the middle income...

>> it's a little hard to say right now. usually you don't get to the discharge position because it scares them enough to move it. i've heard some people suggest that boehner would be happy to have that happen because it gets a vote and he doesn't get the blame for it. it happens despite his objections. remember, they didn't filibuster the middle class tax cut extension. you can easily imagine the scenario where this part of it, the middle income tax cuts get taken off the table early. and i believe abc saying that the republicans have developed what they call a doom's day scenario plan in whic...

They want to proceed. they've been talking generally about revenues, but they haven't put a plan on the table as to how to get there. the president is very clear. they talked about cuts, but the president put cuts on the table. they haven't responded yet. a discharge position signed by 218 will give everyone an opportunity to vote on extending the middle class tax cuts immediately, avoid the biggest part of the fiscal cliff. we can get all the democrats to sign it. we'll probably need 26 republicans to sign it, and if we can get 26 republicans. >> what is the likelihood of that? >> as you've h...

Is the will of the people. it would be hard for him to continue with. >> i wonder if he didn't let the cat out of the bag. to repeal the health care reform, you don't just have to win the house and the senate, you have to win a veto-proof house and senate. which would mean more than a 100 swing in the house. and 26 seats just in this year's senate midterms. if you're not going to get that, why not promise them the moon of the full reform? is that why boehner is unintentionally signaling, he's not going to get it so shoot for the moon? >> yes. but you're being so logical, keith. >> i know. >> t...

Colleagues, well-intentioned members who are pushing something different, that is not consistent with the mandate of the election. that's a concern and that's my week in the freedom caucus are saying wait a minute. timeout. i always hate us. we make this job way too hard. it. simple. what do we tell the voters we are going to do? we didn't tell them we're going to do some kind of >> bill alone which will be the result of what they are put together on this discharge position and the process they are using. we did tell them we would build the board or security wall, end chain migration of a deal...