Argue for your position. go out there and win an election. push to change it. but don t break it. julie, how do the president and his team in the white house, how do they see this now that the shutdown is over? do they think they have republicans on the run? how do they think this is going to play out in terms of policy and politics going forward? i think it s a very unknown answer, even in the white house at this point. i m struck by howñi shrunk the agenda is for the president just a year after winning his second term. when he was inaugurated in january he talked about raising the minimum wage, expanding early child ho d education, immigration reform looked like it had a chance to pass over the summer. now we re talking about things like the farm bill which is generally a fairly easy thing to pass. i think they are certainly hoping that republicans will look at what just
Argue for your position. go out there and win an election. push to change it. but don t break it. julie, how do the president and his team in the white house, how do they see this now that the shutdown is over? do they think they have republicans on the run? how do they think this is going to play out in terms of policy and politics going forward? i think it s a very unknown answer, even in the white house at this point. i m struck by howñi shrunk the agenda is for the president just a year after winning his second term. when he was inaugurated in january he talked about raising the minimum wage, expanding early child ho d education, immigration reform looked like it had a chance to pass over the summer. now we re talking about things like the farm bill which is generally a fairly easy thing to pass. i think they are certainly hoping that republicans will look at what just happened through the budget
reporter: no winners, indeed. the 16-day shutdown cost by one estimate $24 billion and hurt u.s. credibility around the world. the president placed 100% of the blame on republicans. you don t like a particular policy or a particular president, than argue for your position. go out there and win an election. push to change it. but don t break it. reporter: the showdown left the republican party battered in the polls with party leaders placing the blame on ted cruz. green eggs and ham. reporter: who kicked off the showdown with his 22-hour talk against obama care. i will do anything and will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care, and i think our focus should not be on d.c. politics but on the people getting hurt. let me be clear. i said throughout this, we shouldn t have a shutdown. i don t want a shutdown. i repeatedly vote to open the government.
Been out for a long time. i don t think anybody can question me on where i throw my support and what i challenge on conversations about equality. whether it s reform, women s pay or lgbt equality. reaction has been interesting, but this is a great opportunity to showcase that i am no different from the other lgbt how many ans. gay rights or human rights. i go with my husband to prove that. give us a sense of the backdrop that we are talking about in russia here. this is a tough environment. i m wondering whether or not you and patrick have fears and concerns about the russian police, the bullying and the violent tactics they used about gays. i have given this a lot of critical thinking and patrick and i discussed this.
Care system that is helping to keep them all healthy, i am glad he know it making his children suffer for his political idea. i would call them political beliefs, but he clearly doesn t believe them. he just says these things. so his being against everything government does isn t really a belief, it s just a pose. as it is with ted cruz as it is with michele bachmann whose family has lived on government agriculture subsidies while she rails against government spending. the anti-government crowd is against government only in theory. in real life, they are eager to take from the government whatever is good for them. libertarian, anti-government ranter, greg collett s explanation in writing, for why his ten kids have been on medicaid for years is it is the only practical choice.
And small, that government does that make a difference in people s lives. and we hear all the time about how government is the problem. well it turns out we rely on in a whole lot of ways. let s work together to make government work better. instead of treating it like an an enemy. we re purposely making it work worse. that s not what the founders of this nation envisioned when they gave us the gift of self government. you don t like a particular policy or a particular president then argue for your position. go out there and win an election. push to change it. but don t break it. don t break what our predecessors spent two centuries building. to learn from their hopeless
That he has paid nearly as much in taxes as he collects from the government in medicaid. now i for one am very, very glad that in the serpent s nest of irrationality that is greg s brain he has made the correct choice for his kids and enrolled them all in a government health care system that is helping to keep them all healthy, i am glad he know it making his children suffer for his political idea. i would call them political beliefs, but he clearly doesn t believe them. he just says these things. so his being against everything government does isn t really a belief, it s just a pose. as it is with ted cruz as it is with michele bachmann whose family has lived on government agriculture subsidies while she rails against government spending. the anti-government crowd is against government only in theory. in real life, they are eager to take from the government
And vote against rules and do whatever we have to do, just let the leadership know that it s not just the cruz people we have to worry about. there are others that feel very strongly. i think that will get us on an even keel. otherwise, we ll let 30 to 35 ted cruz republicans dominate the house. today the president told republicans, there is a were the way to change things than shutting down the government and bringing the nation to the brink of default. you don t like a particular policy or a particular president, then argue for your position. go out there and win an election. push to change it. but don t break it. joining me now, bruce bartlett, senior former policy analyst in the reagan white house, former assistant deputy secretary for economic policy in the george h.w. bush administration. and bruce, you got a tweet yesterday. you said, some republicans missed a golden opportunity to stand up to the whackcos and a be a hero. not one did.
With you. this also this doesn t just happen in isolation. this happens after we find out what the irs has been doing, the irs scandal over the past year. this happens after all of the nsa revelations where there s a new nsa revelation every week. this happens after we find out there s a bungle justice department attempt to basically, you know, to act in a way that s disturbing to the associated press, to james rossen, to other reporters. this hasn t been the federal government s bright shining year. even if we take all the parties out of it, all the players out of it, americans are sitting back thinking federal government, they are just a bungling group of bureaucrats. yeah. that was the message wasn t it during the 2012 campaign. the federal government has grown. it hasn t done a good job. and barack obama has become the embodiment of the federal government. the republicans perhaps can
If it weren t for eli manning we would be talking about his interceptions happen 49 yards. russell wilson will throw for three tds. seahawks beat arizona cardinals. mika i know you think seahawks are the best team in the nfl. you can break that down. all i know is the red sox is the best team in baseball. we ll find out saturday. up next national review jim geraghity and margaret carlson joins us for the must read pages. don t go away, more morning joe . helicopthierhis hibuzzing, andk engine humming.