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The house republicans sent to the senate contains the exact amount of spending, the same 906 billi billion. the fight is only about obama care, if the government reopens, there is now no difference between the two parties in washington. keep that in mind if the republicans do back down on obama care, if they do end up accepting that clean funding bill and letting the government reopen. you may here rush limbaugh or jim demint call him a traitor, but if the government opens for business it will be operating on republican terms. that game is already over and republicans have won it. joining us, ...

The debt limit, which resulted in significant spending cuts. the republicans wanted more than that. a provision of the deal is spending would be slashed even further if the bipartisan budget was not passed in a year and a half. of course the deadline for the comprehensive bipartisan bill came and went in the spring, and so forgive me, we have what is known as the sequester. so the deep cuts that everybody used to say was a bad deal, now republicans kind of decide they like them, so they seem to be here to stay, which brings us to the government funding bill that the house keeps passing and the...

So here is a trivia question for you, if republicans just gave up right now, said okay, democrats, you get your way, we'll stop trying to keep the affordable care act from passing, and a clean bill, if republicans did that that, here is a question, what would happen? the answer is, the thing to remember the shutdown which is the failure of congress to authorize government spending is not actually about government spending. president obama came to office in 2009, he put together a budget that would have been enacted at 1$1.2 trillion, they authorized about the same amount of spending, $1.1 tril...

John boehner really has to worry the most about. at the same time we're talking about dozens, maybe 150. i don't know what the exact number is, who are content to be quiet in all of this, maybe they secretly want to reopen the government but they're not speaking up and saying it, what are the numbers for them on the great majority on the republican side? >> and it is a great question, 30 to 40 members, 10% of the house, it is not a big number, so many wonder how can this group of conservative dominate? because the silent majority, a little more conservative and to the center, they stay silent ...

Shutdown, bad after the shutdown. in 1996, republicans lost a net total of three seats in the house and you gain two. so yeah, you put all of this together and you can make the case that the the '95 shutdown didn't hurt the republicans all that much. but this is only part of the story. the real version is more complicated. because there was more damage inflicted on the republican party after the election, the damage that they're still living with today. basically it was the 1996 elections, the first election after the 1995 shutdown, and the first election after newt gingrich took control of co...