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Same message sent by the irs abuses of political opponents. do what i say or else. senator lee joins us. so, it doesn t sound like there is much negotiating. no, there is not. really, what we see, when we look at the first week or week and a half of shutdown, we see the very best argument we could ever make against obama care. let me explain what i mean. so just the other day you had a national park service ranger tell the washington times we have been told to make things as difficult for people as we possibly can. they are using the shutdown as an excuse to make things painful. shutting down things like mt. vernon even though it s privately observed. shutting down like the clawed moore colonial farm privately owned. privately operated. they are shught it down. why? because they want to make things difficult it is leverage for them to get their way politically. what happens when we give more power to the government? what happens when we put the federal government in charge of reall ....
Well, think again. last night we pointed out in my off the record commentary that the world war ii memorial is closed but the gym in the house of representatives is open. president obama has the authority to open the monument and speaker boehner has the authority to close the gym. whether either does exercise his authority to do the right thing now speaks very loudly, doesn t it? well, if you think that s bad, listen to this. they must not have been down to the gym lately there are hardly there is hardly anybody working down there. there is no towel service. no towels? no. so we are doing our own laundry down there. and we pay a fee to belong to the house gym. greta: anyone in washington using any common sense? former new hampshire governor john sununu thanks for expwroing joining us. good evening, governor, how are you? how are you, greta? greta: i m doing well. that is brice bailey a democrat from iowa. they do pay some fee to the gym, members of the house but they do ....
The private organization to do it because the senate doesn t want to fall in the sort of the politically unattractive position of deciding something piecemeal. so we see that we re all sort of pawns as everyone is playing and jokeying for position and it s unfair to the american people. it s unfair and shameful. look, not everyone in the senate that doesn t want that to move forward. we had a republican whip in the senate john cornyn brought it up for unanimous consent request. pass this unanimously like the provision providing for active duty military pay last week. but harry reid wouldn t allow it to happen. the in the democrats won t let us fund anything unless we are wilming to fund everything. meanwhile the president and his people are doing everything they can do make life difficult. as difficult as they can for americans. this is why we shouldn t give them control over our healthcare system. greta: congressman van hollen says the last six months they have been trying to get ....
Concerned. greta: i would like to know who actually makes these decisions? it s sort of this vegas thing and some people assign it to president obama. i don t think president obama actually made the decision to shut down the world war ii memorial. however, i think he has the authority to open it up. he is on notice. likewise, i don t like the idea that the gym in the house is open. speaker boehner s office apparently kept it open. his office, didn t say speaker boehner but speaker boehner has the authority to shut it down. it s not a lot of money but it s the principle. i don t understand like who is making these decisions and let s start naming names and we probably won t have it happen as much. ultimately the buck does stop with him and you are exactly right. regardless of whether he himself closed the trigger on the world war ii memorial. it s his prerogative to open it up. they had had to work pretty hard, of course, to shut that thing down. they this to create doors in the fir ....
Should have done something. and what they have done now is the house passed a bill. the senate doesn t want to do piecemeal. the president is trying to bail him out by going to a private organization to do a being extra. it is now october 9th. the american people learned about it yesterday on october 8. they started putting the heat oning and getting this change. nobody on d. on october 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. there is a lot of reason to be outraged. your term? this is an administration that wants to inflict pain on the public. and shame on them for picking on people like the families of our soldiers that have passed away. look, this president knows nothing about leadership. if you want bipartisanship in washington, the leadership has to come from the white house. clinton did it on welfare reform, reagan did it on social security. i worked for a president that knew he was going to pay tremendously politically when he led on getting a multiyear budget. ....