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First of all, last week with not too much fanfare, the house of representatives passed a really big bill on water infrastructure. ports and water ways and canals and things like that. there were a lot of earmarks in that bill. earmarks are not a bad thing. the congress has the power -- >> the return of earmarks. >> supposed to be able to tell us how -- tell the country how to spend its money and, by the way, earmarks also give leadership a carrot or stick. if you vote my way, here you get a project in your district. if you vote against my way, i'm going to take the project out of their distric...

Come back to the democrats and say you know what, boy, 2014 identify read the articles about gerry mandering, this is tough, six year itch. call me again when hillary clinton is at the top of the ticket, call me in 2016 then i'll think about running. the question now is congressional democrats are making these calls again now. post-shutdown saying hey look at these poll numbers. are you sure you want to wait. people that wait in politics usually end up missing opportunities. do you want to miss an opportunity. so i think this next period of the president doing this campaigning, he'll also be a...

The moderates goes back to '94 and it has been a long process. it begins with gingrich and what gingrich is doing. they all -- gingrich said in '94, out in '98, he said, i want to lead, but i don't want to lead cannibals and a process of cannibalization in the republican party ever since and that's where we are today. who are the moderates in the republican party? if orrin hatch is the moderate wing of the republican party, policy has shifted and the cannibalization has been really complete. >> how much of this, i raise this yesterday in the show talking about ted cruz, how much of this isn't ...

I don't think he has any control over the levers of power in the capitol anymore. the president needs a partner. he doesn't have one. who does he have as a partner? eric cantor he's young cassius lean and hungry look waiting to get the speakership. larry mccarthy probably the same way. nobody wants to lead. the biggest leader of the republican party right now is the loudest voice perhaps self-medicated voice at the next tea party. that voice that yells at the guy and says you cut a deal with obama, that's who they're afraid of. that's the real speaker of the house. the loud voice. you get all ...

Map if you can come together and no one believes that can happen right away. >> the "wall street journal" also calls the reaction to tuesday's ruling over the top. especially among democrats who exhumed their roll the clock back metaphors. they still can't let go of the politics of racial polarization that gets them elected. if democrats were spectacular the, they would realize that is racial gerry mandering helps house republicans may making so many fewer districts competitive and say president obama was especially disappointing showing himself once again to be a divider, not a uniter declari...