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Vote. after weeks of the republican leadership floating various ideas on how to get something out of this supposed standoff. something like approval of the keystone xl pipeline or repeal of the health care laws so-called risk corridors or medicare doc fix or living adjustment for military retirees. after all that, they landed back at nothing. speaker boehner opting for a clean debt ceiling hike after predictable grumbling about president obama. he s the one driving up the debt and the question they re asking is, why should i deal with his debt limit? so the fact is we ll let the democrats put the votes up. we ll put a minimum number of votes up to get it passed. whatever frustration speaker boehner may be experiencing, it seemed to be coupled with some relief. it s a fairer way to assess this. thanks. zip-a-dee-doo-dah, zip-a-dee-ay. plenty of sunshine, coming my way. ....
My question is 3/4 of the gop membership are against this plan to have a clean debt limit. how does it work, chris? how does john boehner still have a job? first of all, remember, alex, back to the the start of the 113th congress. if this tea party group had been organized or strategyic, it s possible that john boehner wouldn t be speaker. this is what we ve seen over and over again. you mentioned keystone, risk corridors, the military benefits. all of those things were attempts to get those 30 to 40 republicans, who will never vote for john boehner, to get them on board so they can pass this with a very strong republican vote. ....
Pity john boehner. fresh off his bid to revive immigration reform only to abandon it a week later, he s twisted himself into a knot over something that used to be very simple, raising the nation s debt limit. for more than a week, he s been trying to hold the debt limit hostage in exchange for rolling demands including presidential approval of the keystone pipeline. that wasn t enough. doing away with risk corridors in the affordable care act. then that wasn t the right kind of pain. as of yesterday, restoring military pension cuts, ones republicans negotiated in december s budget deal until the caucus decided that was another kind of pain entirely. instead of extracting something that would really hurt democrats or foul up the administration, ....
Darth vadar saying i ve amended the deal, pray don t alter any further. the secret advantage that the insurance companies have is they have these, basically, bailout provisions or risk corridors which means even if they lose money on the front end because of all this stuff, the white house the government will still get their back, and that, i think, is what they re counting on. martha: unbelievable. wow, what a mess. jonah, thank you. we ll see you next time. thanks. gregg: so far there have been 25 extensions or delays since the law first took effect. think about that, 25. the first was way back at the end of 201, there were 22 changes announced last year including delays of the employer mandate and the sign-up deadlines. all of these changes were straight from the administration itself making changes to the law without congressional consent. martha: well, these decisions affect millions of people since the exchange has opened, about three million people have enrolled in a private ....
Republicans were for in health care reform. now there s talk about risk corridors. you re the only person with whom i can sort of get excited about risk corridors. we have talked about this before ezra. these days this week paul ryan called it an massive insurance company bailout. these things seem to be critical to the success of insurance and insurance reform and they were something that republicans supported not by a few years ago. and still support. we have the medicare drug benefit. the way that benefit deals with the problem ensures if you re ....