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Plan b which is going nowhere. the president has already said he would veto the legislation. it's another attempt to try to shield very high income earners from the fiscal cliff at the expense of the rest of the country. what's happening here is that speaker boehner cannot sell a reasonable compromise to what is a very right-wing, extreme, tea party caucus, and that's why a proposal that all objective parties would agree is the reasonable compromise and the one that the president has put on the table cannot make it through the house right now. that's speaker baener's assessment and he's walkin...

we'll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. >> we want to make sure we never get here again. i want to support something that makes sure we never get here again. >> the deal that is on the table makes the hole deeper. and so don't -- you shouldn't expect people who believe that we should balance the budget to vote for a deal that makes the hole deeper. >> i can't su...

to send it to the senate where it can receive action. >> well, the vote was scheduled for yesterday, rescheduled for early this evening and then put on hold again so the leadership could wrangle votes. they're going that literally as we speak. still promising a vote sometime tonight. we'll be live when it hams. yesterday speaker boehner told the troops to "get their asses in line". apparently not enough republicans have, and now his credibility is on the line. most of the opposition coming from tea party supporters, raw, open, direct rebellion. >> we want to make sure we never get he...

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