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Contract. $800,000 of taxpayer money to go to an activist group that promotes childbirth in michigan, they promote childbirth not just by opposing abortion, but by opposing access to birth control pills. michigan republicans are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on taxpayer money on an activist group that opposes the use of birth control pills, because that's what michigan needs. not just in the deep south, on the far fringes of conservative politics. in totally mainstream republican politics now, being against contraception is a mainstream position. and against that astonishing backdr...

Concerned veterans for america, which is the group that kicked off the anger about the va system in arizona. this is a mainstream position being advanced by mainstream republicans and democrats were unwilling to talk when george bush was president. that has an effect. it has an administration that in this case, in the case of bergdahl was ready to celebrate something being shocked at how politically difficult everything can become when you have republicans assigning the weakness to them. >> assigning the motives of book sales for someone who is not even announced she is running for president. ...

Obamacare. i think the challenge for paul ryan and for chris christie is not just to sound moderate and say there is actually a robust conservative vision that is somehow more moderate than that, that is winning and still conservative. i think that is the sweet spot. i'm not sure they are there yet. >> governor huntsman, what are the two best things you can say about the positive impact ted cruz is having on your party? >> well, i think he's actually throwing out some interesting narratives that capture the attention of leach grassroots organizers and, two, i think he may prove the point that ...

Klein who has a great analysis of this. while the house progressives fantasy land no compromise effort, ryan's fantasy land no compromise effort is the official position of most every republican. house progressives don't need to learn how to compromise, but the house republicans do need to learn to compromise and there's not much evidence they're there yet. >> and if you read david brooks' column had in "the new york times," the big effort to equate that with the sort of mainstream position. the president has already said that he was open to cutting medicare. i don't know why. but he is. he's ...

Boehner a lot of cover. he still could not marshal the support. now with two members of his leadership going against him, cantor and mccarthy, although paul ryan interestingly voted for it, what does that mean for the caucus tomorrow? >> it's interesting. some folks speculated perhaps john boehner might not get enough votes on the first ballot to become speaker. a lot of folks think he'll be reelected without any type of incident, but there's a coalition within the house republican conference that is ready to go against what they view to be the mainstream position, the compromising position in...