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Job hypothesis is by now a pretty well-founded hypothesis. that was the case even before mr. boehner s republican caucus just imploded last night and gave up and went home and asked the democrats to instead see if there is something maybe they instead can do at the end of year negotiations that the cbo says will put the country back in recession if they are not successful. john boehner is in fact bad at his job. i think the hypothesis has been proven. but now the most important question is why. why is he so bad at his job? is it just a matter of him not being up to the job as a person, as a individual? does he not have the capacity and somebody else could do it? or is his job in fact impossible? what if the fractious ideological argument commitments of congress are incompatible with governing. if you need to, say, compromise in order to govern, and one side for political reasons cannot compromise, then they cannot govern. it s like if you have a peanut allergy, okay. you can t get a jo ....
Then something they end up cooking up, it might work out. it might end up saving the country s bacon. if it does not happen, we are still counting on john boehner s leadership to find a way out of this. and if john boehner s leadership is your national economy s parachute, how do you feel about taking this leap? joining us now is chris hayes. he is author of twilight of the elites and host of up with chris hayes weekends here on msnbc. how are you? i m weirded out by the uncertainty of the future over a very short time period in washington. uncertainty of the future over a long period, i m wired for that. uncertainty about what is going to happen for the next 12 days for something this big of a deal, i feel rattled. votes like last night, that is very rare. and it s funny. i came in here thinking i was going to disagree with you, and i ve been tracking the john boehner bad at his job hypothesis which i think is ....
Cooking up, it might work out. it might end up saving the country s bacon. if it does not happen, we are still counting on john boehner s leadership to find a way out of this. and if john boehner s leadership is your national economy s parachute, how do you feel about taking this leap? joining us now is chris hayes. he is author of twilight of the elites and host of up with chris hayes weekends here on msnbc. how are you? i m weirded out by the uncertainty of the future over a very short time period in washington. uncertainty of the future over a long period, i m wired for that. uncertainty about what is going to happen for the next 12 days for something this big of a deal, i feel rattled. votes like last night, that is very rare. and it s funny. i came in here thinking i was going to disagree with you, and i ve been tracking the john boehner bad at his job hypothesis which i think is right in some ways. but is it structural or some ....
It might end up saving the country s bacon. if it does not happen, we are still counting on john boehner s leadership to find a way out of this. and if john boehner s leadership is your national economy s parachute, how do you feel about taking this leap? joining us now is chris hayes. he is author of twilight of the elites and host of up with chris hayes weekends here on msnbc. how are you? i m weirded out by the uncertainty of the future over a very short time period in washington. uncertainty of the future over a long period, i m wired for that. uncertainty about what is going to happen for the next 12 days for something this big of a deal, i feel rattled. votes like last night, that is very rare. and it s funny. i came in here thinking i was going to disagree with you, and i ve been tracking the john boehner bad at his job hypothesis which i think is right in some ways. but is it structural or some ....
Well, as speaker john boehner has had some trouble, everything from forgetting to swear some of his people in on day one to not achieving any of the republicans stated legislative goals. on this show these troubles have been cataloged as the john boehner is bad at his job hypothesis. there s something new. apparently it s not just boehner being bad at his job in this hypothesis. politico.com reporting that the longtime spokesman for number two house republican, eric cantor, not only quit on friday but he quit after almost getting into a fistfight with another cantor staffer. it was apparently about a piece of legislation cantor s office was due to roll out last week. they thought they had a bunch of supporters lined up to say nice things about it, but that fell through. and then the two staffers had what politico described as an aggressive confrontation that, quote, almost turned into a physical altercation. cantor s high-profile spokesman then quit and now it s all over politico. so ....