really offsets
yet mention this last week the potential for government shutdown
eat eat it appears now
let me just literally in the past hour that this may not happen
and it's going to look more or less
like the house is going to vote for a continuing resolution
that a extending the budget in other words
that is going to you attempt to defund Obamacare
it is gonna go to the senate where the
the republicans in the senate have been crapping on this the the republicans in
the house saying
you guys better man up and cut Obamacare funding
but now in that we don't have to do it ourselves but now in the senate
guys like Ted Cruz Rampal and a mic legal have been at making a stink about
this are saying
well we're not going to win the US trip that part of it added the bill
we're not going to filibuster which is gonna pretend to vote against the poor
not gonna stop it
now they could have stopped they could stop it until a government shutdown if
they wanted to do what they could do but they're
they're afraid to do it so then it gets kicked back to the house
and where the reporting i've seen now is that
I bainer will try make some deal with is a
Republican cock is that like we're going to tie this into the debt ceiling and
that's where we're gonna have the big fight
are which is you know maybe in some respects more dangerous
so I this is just been a stunning sure raid
and you know of course they won't pay a political price with their
with their base because the base are more rights right to see more on
you know that that sorta what a the red Paul Krugman's more more recent
most recent only nails into saying how bobby Jindal called
said we can be the stupid party in the world you know if I did not quite as to
the party to the crazy party
I you know given divided government the past
not since people are keen each other in the Civil War on the House floor
do you have this will people are really willing to blow up the country
to get what they want they want to destroy our economy I am
eat nothing that they do saying makes in midtech reducing makes any sense
had a feeling that the beaners have the world whatever was a right-wing hack
I you know and a corrupt ac same with Mitch McConnell but they're not crazy
enough
22 want to shut down the government he doesn't know how that goes into feeling
they find a way for that not to happen
because polls close the show they'll be blamed for people are just not as dumb
as they seem to think everybody
be on their bases I and we talk about this in the past with McConnell's
primary lamar alexander and again they created this Frankenstein monster
and when you say Obamacare is the worst legislation fifty years in News death
panels in
you make up all sorts a garbage it's not true to have to live up to it
you know and and and so they're so they're being pressure to live up to it
that soon to become a
where the default positions like not believe any regulation of guns are not
believe in global warming exists
you know and the rest is that they need to is that if you're not willing to
shut down the government global economy was ever no sinister to stop this
terrible terrible bill
that's going to give kids health care in the people pre-existing conditions
health care and all the other in and the rest
then you know if you're willing to do that in your your
a whimper sums were in a in in the end I think they will cave on this innovation
ISI
what will happen with the debt ceiling but they're all these guys are in a no
win situation is a couple them
you know 15-20 from you know if your senator from Wyoming or something you
probably pretty safe
for any these guys that live in any state where they're really really people
that are sane
and have at least you know someone to at least a year without a college education
are going to have to explain all this and and have democrats finally
get up get spread and messaging writer and Obamacare is that is going on saying
it Obamacare but talk about the individual aspects of what this does for
people
how it gets people health care how it helps children how it helps women
in these guys are dead you know that let them run on
let them run on this idea I mean you know the the thing is
the that you know in there some reports too that the president is going to try
and push pull OCD deliver 50 votes for bainer in the house
to approve that final continuing resolution so that their people can
still vote against it
by Mendes carry this fight to the debt ceiling I hope to god that doesn't
happen because that would be just the ultimate weakness but
what I Z workers to me about this and
I you know what also you know aside from the fact that
in some respects the the Obama administration
may let them off the hook on this government shutdown
is when we see stuff like this food stamp pad aware that the house yesterday
voted
the 217 to
I'm not sure what it was to 15 or so basically an
every republican except for 12 I
voted to Def deep cut food stamps
basically throw three and a half million people off the rolls I'll talk more
about it did the specifics at this
I in in in the is the show proceeds but
30 my nine billion dollars in cuts over 10 years $39 billion dollars in cuts
ill throw know what it is to just to be clear they're not cutting
mediated a make it more attractive use any cutting food stamps
to cutting $39 billion dollars in food that's right
23 thing by many people this year and then three million people for over the
net each year over the next ten years
and its people who've been out of work for an extended period of time
their people who've received who are getting who who states
have applied to the federal government for a waiver on these restrictions that
came in during the clinton welfare program
which as reform which I have I mention in the past was was a horrible peace
a work because when you get into a situation where you have such massive
unemployment you need the ability
I to help people and yeah this is just one of the cruelest things possible but
what it's what it what it's gonna do is it sorted
it's gonna end up you know in I was still on Hayes last night talking about
this
are this part of the conversation we had awful but it sets
the I opens up the parameters of the debate where becomes reasonable to cut
little bit a food stamps where the senate cutting
you know four million dollars as opposed to 40 over 10 years
just on administrative costs which course and upper gave no denying some
people food stamps
becomes the reasonable position image what's right is so good at expanding the
window by
by putting 19s out ain't it but but this is where
the that the democrats where it exposes the democrats
I love how to a being not just so weak-kneed per se
but frankly I'll a centrist party
in its aggregate form in other words yet what party and I sector a centrist party
year yes if you are in the senate controlled by Democrats
and the house is sending you a bill to defund Obamacare
as part of a continuing resolution you should be a trying to attach to that
senate bill that goes back to the house
a single pair for all single-payer Medicare
in so make them ideal with
make them deal with a version of this which we should say
by any reasonable measure and i'm talking in terms of what the american
population
I expresses through polls would be more or less
a an acceptable position for the american public
have a single pair for all Medicare for All Medicare buy-in 55 you can add to
this
and force them to vote against that but they don't they don't we should be doing
at all the damn time
yeah with all this stuff again like you know we let them get away with these
abstractions
but you're not in that they would it is it is because the Democratic Party
still in you know we've seen some progress at least on the server the
banking front
days measurable in now this this basically this rejection
larry summers coming out at the San we're seeing some ovett grow
but a obviously it's needs to grow faster and bigger
right well it's growing on the left we had this conversation with a new lappy I
think overall
its growing within the caucus the willingness to be more left and right
when I say that I mean within the democratic party in general
it's growing from people outside but yes it does need to grow faster because the
truth is every damn time they put up something like the classic example right
now
yet which we were doing something smart is on social security
where these these bastards are trying to cut Social Security tried for a while
and we were just saying no
and then we realized but feel it and the Social Security
so response now is now we're gonna increase it you know and then maybe the
worst place you end up is it stays the same
and that is what we need to be doing on every single issue
when they want to push the Overton Window one way we should push it the
other way
a problem is we've got a president and should have knows we discussed what mine
said he's in stilly know is that a coalition
growing on the left I he still embraces this rich centrist approach
and he still has repeated rightly messaging about spending being bad
and spending in the abstract for me to should be called spending should be
called kids food
in kids' health care and women's health care what's call these things what they
are
and you know you're not cutting spending your cutting women's health care
you want women to not be able to get breast exam so there's more breast
cancer more women die
that is what you want I you know you you're trying to cut Obamacare right now
that would help from the CHIP program you want kids who otherwise
their lives could be saved will get simple nieto's simple
illnesses you want them to die from lack of health care that is what you want
because you think it's more important to not allow them to have that I'll be if
we we we we know we need
to to respond that only in the proper language we need to respond by
by not buy making the argument affirmatively in favor government what
government does
still are you in for more of it
goodness said it better myself