when we talk about firing up the base, there were protests outside speaker boehner s office who threatened him with a block lawsuit for blocking immigration reform. did the speaker have any idea his lawsuit would just fire up his opponents? they must. look, boehner has been in office for a long time. certainly he knew there would be some sort of backlash to this. there are moments when the president is week in the sense of his public opinion polls lagging. what s going on in iraq and the summer doll district managers when people tune out from thinking about the political world. what boehner has done is turn everyone away from what had been a bad news cycle for the president toward a good news cycle. americans recognize that this is a dually elected twice
Through congress? so is this a valid point that he s making or is it more than really a stunt and it will put a dent in the approval ratings? yeah, i don t think boehner s lawsuit is going to put a dent in obama s ratings. i think it s going to hurt the gop and hurt them badly. i think the democrats have been able to fundraise off it easily and quickly. president is right in both actions. he s going to take executive action where he needs it. and the fact that the gop is doing so little gives him the cover to do it anyway. we re talking about the numbers. you saw over a half million dollars being able to be raised. the highest online fundraising day ever. so is this all against them, the gop? is there any way of turning it around based on what boehner is doing? is he going to walk away from the lawsuit? highly doubt he will. he pledged to bring legislation
Weigh in on separations of powers fights between the other two branches of governments. even if this challenge would succeed, it would likely take years before we find out what the courts believe. in other words, it would be more likely to set the parameters for a president hillary clinton or speaker steve scalise than for president obama and speaker boehner. what boehner will tell you is all his members when they go home and talk to their constituents, their base constituents, they hear this, that the president is running rough shade ovod over house republicans. so this is their answer. the other thing republicans can get out of this potentially, it gives them something to run or or at least defend in an election year they have gotten very little done. boehner said it is not intended for the republican base during the midterms but the only folks happier of what boehner has done, democrats. house republicans are so against
About the science which is something he can portray the republicans out of step and out of mainstream but he s not talking about cap and trade, regulation, things that republicans portray as job-killing regulations, josh dab killing cap and trade. he wants to fight it on different terms about the science and that they think is a winning argument politically. climate change one of the many issues where the president is using executive actions. house speaker john boehner saying yesterday he s had enough and house republicans, he wants to take the president to court and to sue him. listen to the speaker. you know, the constitution makes it clear that a president s job is to faithfully execute the laws, and in my view the president has not faithfully executed the laws. is this a serious constitutional challenge, the powers between the legislative and the executive, or is this i m john boehner, i m head nothing a mid-term election, i m going sue the president, my base already doesn t like so the conservatives think, oh, okay, he s on our side. well, if you look at what boehner said yesterday and some of the documentation that they
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Republican caucus wants to go along with it. the reaction to all this, phillip, talk about that. in terms of what percentage of republicans do you think feel the same way as john boehner does? we ve seen over the course of the past ten months or so, this dichotomy between the tea party, conservative far right branch of the republican party and the republican establishment. what boehner was representing with that rather strange performance was the view of the establishment. they want to move forward. they want to do something that addresses this issue and have been blocks from doing so. honestly, it was a fairly baffling performance. he acknowledged there was a camera there and then proceeded to do it. it s hard for me to understand how alien eighting his members and also he s for a long time been blaming president obama, saying it was very, very strange and i m not sure it s going to accomplish what he s
Grown-ups. if it s a wing, you need to play off of that. was nicole is saying is exactly right. they can talk about the impre s implication of health care reform. what boehner did was extraordinarily smart. i agree with all of that. i think if i was a republican, i would want to discuss nothing other than obamacare and you do that take off the self-inflicting wounds of the debt sealing and shutdown and take them off to one side and focus on one thing. i d like to go back. is it not crazy how many billionaires are deciding they want to throw hundreds of millions of dollars away? it s nuts! why not put it in a pot and raise the minimum wage. i mean, seriously! unbelievable. that stimulus? this is supreme court. stimulus for like cable channels running political ads but it s crazy. it s like if you have a billion
allen, you want to respond? good luck with that. really, what boehner realized was that he couldn t get the tea party on board to do things that needed to be done. with the tail wagging the dog the shutdown of the government was blamed on republicans by the public. that is why boehner said the tea party has no credibility. they also wanted to get this done now. they wanted to get the debt ceiling issue dealt with sot that this wouldn t be in the way of the message they want, the messaging going towards the 2014 mid term election. get it done now get it off the table. and whatever agenda they think will win them the 2014 mid term election. exactly. right. well, that s an interesting point because some are suggesting we have to keep in mind that this country, the voters in the country have a very limited attention span. the mid term elections are nine months away. there are other issues out
did he hold the nation hostage. you can come together with a grand bargain. you doesn t mess with the faith of our credit and the economy at this stage. i think this is a rare case where boehner showed some leadership and it might tell us what boehner plans to do with the rest of his future. it will be interesting to talk about what he ll be doing a year out from now and i think president obama did the right thing by not caving. so you sometimes have to do the right thing and take the bad headline. but you don t have to have a bad headline. barack obama voted against raising the debt ceiling and he made a point. the raspberry epublicans could least made a point about a debt,