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I think meadows and a lot of the tea partiers and ted cruz, they have -- had a strategy. and their strategy led them to this point. they, they didn't have any strategy going forward. you know, repeal obama care is not an actual strategy. that's not going to happen. republican leadership never wanted to get to this point. so, this isn't their strategy either. that is kind of what is upsetting the political balance here. the people who now have the responsibility for getting out of this jam, didn't want to be in it in the first place. so, you know -- it's -- at this, at this point -- it's, reall...

I'm sure. think whthat would be so cool. until he became the guy with a 21 hour fake filibuster. if you think your state doesn't like the shut down, consider that virginia has 170,000 civilian federal employees. the new plitico poll shows that percentage of virginia's is 62%. 62% opposed to the shut down in virginia. who do they blame? they blame congressional republicans by a 15 point margin. perhaps not surprisingly they do not like the instigator of the shut down, who is dead krus.

Going forward. repeal obama care is not an actual strategy. that's not going to happen. republican leadership never wanted to get to this point. so, this isn't their strategy either. that is kind of what is upsetting the political balance here. the people who now have the responsibility for getting out of this jam, didn't want to be in it in the first place. so, you know -- it's -- at this, at this point -- it's, really difficult to see exactly where this goes. because of that. >> ryan, if they did want to end the shut down. if somebody, some magic shift in the political wind made them decide ...

Not 217 members of the house who will vote for a budget. who will vote for a budget without trying to get rid of obamacare or something. he says he cannot get to 217. let's help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we're going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end t...

He says he cannot get to 217. let's help him count. over the weekend. 195 democrats signed a letter asking john boehner to schedule a vote. we know. they would sign their names. 195 votes to start with, crumb democrats for a clean budget. need 217. start at 195. so, we're going to count this up for the speaker in case it is helpful. start with 195. we have 195 democratic votes. a bunch of republicans in the past few days would vote with the democrats to end the shutdown and pass a clean budget. starting with 195. let's add representative pat meehan. a statement said it was time for the house t...