but what about the women in the gop? >> guest: restart the buck off talking about the demographics because i think that is a huge issue, and there was no shortage of information provided on the impact of women in the 2012 election. and not only do i talk about the importance as a demographic, but also looking at when the candidates are looking at what is taking place in the congress and the role of women if you look at a state like new hampshire as an all women delegation. so i think 2012 could be considered the year of the woman. i think 2016 will be the year. we are seeing women flexing their political power in terms of voting and women overwhelmingly outnumbered by men going to the polls, and barack obama was able to take advantage of that to the and i do think there were some missteps by the republican party from a number of the candidates. it appears that they still haven't been able to kind of write that down on how to talk about women's issues going forward, and i think unless and until they can do that it is going

tonight's lead, the clueless, heartless, and gutless gop. that's how the national journal describes the republican party today. a gop that puts its far right ideology over families. even over children. children like desani, an 11-year-old homeless girl profiled in an amazing article in today's "new york times." she lives in poverty in a shelter with her family. a shelter infested with roaches and rodents. the walls covered in mold. in the richest country in the world, no child should live in these conditions. but deshani is just one of 22,000 homeless children in new york city. across the country, one in five children lives in poverty. this is a real crisis. right now this country is facing this crisis. but republicans in washington don't seem to care. in just two weeks, unemployment benefits will run out for 1.3 million americans. yet this is the response from a top republican. >> i do support unemployment benefits for the 26 weeks they're paid for. if you extend it beyond that, you do a disservice to these workers. when you allow people to

so often the gop gets slammed for going back to reagan. you see people in the senate going back to jack kemp, one of your old mentors and friends. >> that's right. reagan himself believed in the safety net. he absolutely did. robert, thank you so much. >>> now, is pope francis anti-capitalism? his first apostolic exhortations suggests he is. but does he really believe that the state produces more prosperity than capitalist markets? we're going to look very closely at these burning issues just ahead on "the kudlow report." ♪ [ male announcer ] how could switchgrass in argentina, change engineering in dubai, aluminum production in south africa, and the aerospace industry in the u.s.? at t. rowe price, we understand the connections of a complex, global economy. it's just one reason over 70% of our mutual funds beat their 10-year lipper average. t. rowe price. invest with confidence. request a prospectus or summary prospectus with investment information, risks, fees and expenses to read and consider carefully before investing. with investment i

with eric ham, author of the "gop civil war." then the leader of the democratic leadership towns all out -- council al from. ♪ ♪ >> congress is out of session, president is in hawaii, aaa estimating that 40% of the washington area residents traveled for the holiday. pretty quiet in d.c. we have a three hour, live "washington journal." here are some headlines. from "the wall street journal," mary landrieu oh in-line -- in line. the nomination of max baucus could result and mary landrieu taking over the energy committee in the senate. that would set up a game of musical chairs. a likely is seen as successor to mr. baucus as head of the finance committee. and mary landrieu could then take mr. wyden's spot. she comes from a state where oil and gas companies are asian employers. she voted for the keystone xl pipeline -- oil and gas employers.re major she voted for the keystone xl pipeline in a symbolic decision. president obama does not want to make a decision on the massive keystone xl pipeline. not have to.he may house democrats and

i'm worried the gop won't take the right position on this. >> the goal of the gop on economics is to nd yourself on the most tried and true mechanism for everybody in society, that is to embrace the free market. not to embrace the politicians and bureaucrats who know better, but to give it to the one mechanism that has lifted human beings from poverty to wealth in history, and that is capitalism. >> you don't support the new deal, because you don't support the federal minimum wage. let's just have a ballet proech to these things. >> the final thing for you at home. do you think obamacare will be the biggest issue of the 2014 midterm elections. tweet yes or no. we'll have the results after the break. [ female announcer ] there's one thing dave's always wanted to do when he retires -- keep working, but for himself. so as his financial advisor, i took a look at everything he has. the 401(k). insurance policies. even money he's invested elsewhere. we're building a retirement plan to help him launch a second career. dave's flight school. go dave. when people talk, great things can happen.

it is not the doctrine of the gop. resident's speech this week is the same -- pretty much the same thematically as the speech he gave in kansas. which is the same speech themematically the president has been giving since he got on the national stage, since 2004. the fact that the president is now joined, you know, rhetorically by the pope is a good thing. and a pope who, because of his words and deeds, is infinitely more popular and powerful than the sitting president of the united states. >> you know, david, last point to you. because one of the things that strikes me here as we get into this, right, paul ryan, you know, considers himself a good catholic. we've got a budget coming up, right? there are opportunities, very concrete opportunities, december 28th, unemployment insurance runs out. for many republicans who consider themselves good catholics, to prove that they are -- when they talk about that they try to be good catholics and they try to follow the teachings and all of that, okay, then why are we going to cut

is this the right time for the gop to push for a plan? lan in a second, but timing. >> yes. i mean, i think it's the right time to both criticize obamacare and vow to repeal it, to try to help people escape from obamacare with targeted fixes like if you like your insurance, keep it. maybe allowing temporary health insurance plans being sold now to go longer, et cetera. then i think it's very important for republicans to step forward with a set of plans that comprehensively address the health insurance system and they're going to do it. paul ryan i'm told is working with governor jindal of louisiana, tom coburn in senate and are going to come up with not one huge 2,700 page plan but a series of plans to address the different parts of the health care system, pre-existing conditions, the individual market, the tax treatment equalizing tax treatment for individuals, et cetera. and i think they'll try to get that out before the state of the union. >> all right. that's an interesting point. should other people are asking whether the gop should c

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the american people, many within the gop, weren't satisfied with the policies and laws being createdso they elected in the tea party. this back and forth installing, if you will of congress doing its work, is what the people wanted. if they don't like it, they need to vote another way again come 2014. now, is this the way things are going to be going forward for the long haul? you know, i doubt it. you know, nothing in washington lasts forever. certainly not, you know, warm feelings about parties. everything is dependent on polls and what happens with the economy and what numbers are saying, and then obviously as we are heading towards 2014, you know, who is thinking about running for president? you know, there are a lot of other factors that are involved in terms of whether or not this is going to be sustained sort of bipartisanship, but it is encouraging to see that they've at least gotten this far. if i could add one more thing, and that would be i really -- i really would hope that, you know, at some point the tea party members get encouraged and just form their own party. you kn

the criticism is a valid one of the gop plans. en you get beyond the sound bite, what have you got, what they say and most often sounds like elements of the affordable care act. rick, you can respond to that. >> but here's the problem. look, the affordable care act tries to put people in four different plans. i think they're iron, aluminum, tin, and rust. you can't put 300 million people into four plans. that's saying people can only live in four kinds of houses, four kinds of cars, four kinds of restaurants. only have four types of potato chips. look, that's never going to work. why not have -- >> i don't think that's fair. i don't think that's fair because my four categories actually entailed 24 different plans. i have a 25-year-old daughter who enrolled through new york. she had 77 different options. >> and if you live in new hampshire, you have one. >> jonathan, i want to ask you this. is there a credibility problem here on the part of the gop? lindsey graham told "the new york times" that this is the raging policy debate going

right now he's the fresh face, new hope for the gop. ing for strongly than other contenders. >> back in '08, hillary and giuliani duking it out and that did not happen. when you hear all of the names i bandied about, anyone jump out out at you beyond chris christie and hillary. >> paulrien, if you see what paul ryan's been doing in last three months, his key negotiations when it came to the budget deal, he's a sweetheart on capitol hill but he's still a tea party favorite. he's toning down rhetoric, that's more divisive among the republican party right now. and i think what is going to happen you're going to see paul ryan come out stronger because he's well-like on capitol hill, respected but very much a tea party candidate what happen that means the tea party candidate is going to get a lot of money not just the koch brothers but grassroots organizing. when it comes to chris christie, his challenge, he's a household name but he's a bully. he doesn't attract a lot of the new majority that brought barack obama into power, that's young mil

the gop holds only 14.w of republican incumbents now face primary challenges from tea party candidates. no doubt emboldened by their growing power in washington. who will force them into primary battles, essentially, over who is the most conservative. that's going to divert the gop's time and money away from defeating democrats. even mitch mcconnell is facing a challenge. if you're wondering why, the senate majority leader -- minority leader, sorry, opposes the budget deal, look no further than good old matt beavan. the tea party affiliated businessman who's challenging him in the kentucky primary. all just another sign of the growing war with the the grand ole party. today we thought we'd introduce you to a few of our favorites we'll be watching as we head into 2014. let's meet the challengers. here to help us do it republican strategist susan del percio. and manu roger. i have to say, this is susan's inaugural appearance on "disrupt." i know she's so excited that i asked her to come talk about the crazies

but the gop was cast as out of touch. several state legislatures announced new restrictions on an bopg. and house republicans split food stamps which benefit the poor from agricultural sub city sgis. and then there was the government shutdown which turned in to an unmitigated political disaster for the gop, producing ma massive pessimism. is can republicans net their six seats and win control of the senate? does the president recover? 35 seats in the senate side are up, if republicans somehow win in montana, south dakota and washington, those three open seats, then they need to win tree out of these four, arkansas, alas characterization louisiana and north carolina.ch louisiana and north carolina. much easier path than when democrats won six to win control in '06. now the president's declining numbers are a particular problem for those red state democrats. their fates are tied to the president's ability to bounce back and give nationally much closer to 50. hard to see how any of them win re-election if the president's over

and guess what, the sky is not falling. >>> plus, gop hypocrisy on nelson mandela. now he's their hero. you may think we've forgotten, but we haven't. >>> and president obama responds to his critics. he's unloading on the republican congress. wait until you hear why he says they should be embarrassed. >>> and we have a major development in that new mexico police stop. news on the officer caught shooting at the van carrying five children. stay with us. people don't have to think about where their electricity comes from. they flip the switch-- and the light comes on. it's our job to make sure that it does. using natural gas this power plant can produce enough energy for about 600,000 homes. generating electricity that's cleaner and reliable, with fewer emissions-- it matters. ♪ >>> up next, the gop has tried to say obama care is a job killer. well, that republican talking point got crushed today. that's next. ♪ [ male announcer ] your eyes. even at a distance of 10 miles... the length of 146 football fields... they can see the light of a single candle. your eyes are am

. >> to the 1.3 million americans losing benefits, merry christmas, from the gop. 's wrong to leave more than 1 million americans behind. >> now, with another 1.9 million expected to lose benefits by the middle of the year, senator jack reid, a democrat from rhode island, announced yesterday that he's co sponsoring a bill, along with republican senator, dean heller of nevada that would extend federal unemployment insurance for three months. its legislation they're hoping to receive a procedural vote when congress returns in january. here's the thing. tomorrow's expiration of unemployment benefits is not the only deadline affecting millions of americans this holiday season. the official deadline to receive health insurance coverage on january 1st, through the affordable care act, was midnight on christmas eve. now, with a few case by case exceptions for those who attempted to enroll but couldn't, the flawed but vastly improved healthcare.gov website saw 2 million visitors monday, alone. and the call center received an additional 250,000 calls. the real test begins in

the gop isn't interested in working with the president. they're obsessed.etting along with him, but with getting rid of him. >> we want all tools available to use including that, the impeachment. >> if he continues, could that build up to make a case for possible impeachment? >> all options should be on the table. >> if we were to impeach the president tomorrow, you could probably get all the votes in the house of representatives to do it. >> tell me how i can impeach the president of the united states. >> you have to establish the criteria that would qualify for proceedings against the president. and that's called impeachment. >> that's what this president is up against. and that doesn't even include the deep enders who think he wasn't even born here. >> all i can tell you is that the general consensus is that he has produced a birth certificate. the question is, is it legitimate? >> i mean, if someone asked for my birth certificate, i'd go get it out and say here it is. >> all the president has to do is show it. >> yeah. hear that? all he has to do is sho

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there are other things the gop needs to do to broaden the base. every male republican candidate needs to be given a biology class on a woman's reproductive system. the republican platform should include a clause whereby any republican candidate utters the word rate at anything other than a violent act against an individual, they will be cut into pieces and thrown into a tank of sharks. enough with that. part of the reason this happens because there are not enough women elected as republicans. if there were, i have to believe will make a difference on how republicans would talk to, talk with, and talk about women. it is time for the voices to make themselves heard. if one elected republican says something stupid, something offensive, there should be 10 republicans that immediately repudiate the statements and make a they are not representative of the entire party. we cannot be lukewarm about it. it is not ok to say that is not the language i would have used. we have to call stupid, stupid. if you change of tone on so many issues. not just women's i

cautious is not a word you associate with the modern gop, due in part to the rise of the moderate tea, the tea party that gave us the government shutdown two months ago, that dragged the republican party's approval rating to an all-time low. it's the tea party that propped up a slew of extreme candidates who lost winnable races for the gop in the last two election cycles. it's the tea party that would like to replace senate republican leader mitch mcconnell, the very, very, very occasional deal-maker who might be majority leader if not for the same tea party, and as it the tea party that's become such a toxic political brand, polling show its very unfavorable views have tripled since 2010. but there is another side to the tea party's story. while it may have been terrible politics, the tea party has been good policy for the gop, at least from the perspective of those who want to shrink the government. without the tea party, we probably wouldn't have had the disastrous sequester cuts and other austerity measures that the congressional budget office says have set the government on a pat

i think the brand of the gop is callousness and working for big corporations. nd and what people believe the republican party stands for. it's true they believe the republican party stands for smaller government and all that but the american people are not so hung up on the size of government. they don't think government works very well. people -- >> well, the republicans have certainly, you know, enhanced that, haven't they? >> no. they have. but you know, bill clinton always said that people would -- need to like the person they vote for. people don't like republicans very much in this country because they're not very likable and this is the kind of thing that people remember cutting unemployment at christmastime. they won't forget that. they're really not. >> goldie, we looked at the alternatives. so we looked at some things like how about closing some corporate tax loopholes? how about subsidies to oil, gas and coal industries? that would over $100 billion in the next 10 years or depreciation, cut the accelerated decelebration program, $24.5 billion. you hav

you wrote the gop might as well be dead. sure, the tweet was later corrected.ome on people, the lowest level black person could have told them the tweet was wrong or offensive. not that anyone listened, assuming there are any low level black people there, which is hilarious but also probably true. the outreach, it's cosmetic. >> when you look at the gop autopsy, it's airy fairy, we must use best practices to reach out to the african-american community. best practices is that nonsense world used in the consultant's world, which means we don't know what to do, how to go about this. lets talk to somebody else with the answer. this would not have happened -- rosa parks tweet would not have happened. the unfurling of the confederate flag would not have happened. lar lar larry clayman would not have been allowed had michael steele been the chair of the republican party because he knows what kind of message that sends to african-americans, what that does for the reputation of the republican party, and he would know to stop it. look, i give the republican party, rnc gr

ryan is trying to save the gop from itself so why would republican senators sabotage the deal and risk a government shutdown that distracts from obamacare and might kill him in november? we have one republican senator who says he's still undecided about he's going to vote. we're going to talk to him live. maybe we'll make some news right here on the program. >>> and finally, stocks still worried about a tighter fed that could block a christmas rally. all those stories and more coming up on "the kudlow report" beginning right now. good evening, i'm larry kudlow. this is "the kudlow report." we're live here. it's 7:00 p.m. eastern, 4:00 p.m. pacific. the first deadline is approaching. we are now ten days away from the deadline to objetain covera by january 1st. but insurance companies will start covering individuals whether they have paid, enrolled, or not. so why won't the obama administration just swallow its pride and delay the individual mandate altogether? here now we talk to democratic strategist chris kofinis and manhattan institute senior fellow paul howard. gentlemen, welcome ba

and i'm looking forward to a pueblo youth, unfortunately the gop is having some serious lady troubles and not the kind of lady troubles that can be solved with a quarantine tent. according to an october abc,/washington post/flintstones chewables poll 63 percent of women have an unfavorable view of the republican party i don't get it, over 90 percent of congressional republicans are dudes. lady it's a sausage fest. it is raining men, hallelujah, it is raining men! >> belly up to the buffet. >> folks, there is some good news out there, appeals to women in 2014, republicans are trying something new, anything. >> according to the politico, john boehner'sed to aides held a seminar to discuss how lawmakers should talk to female constituents and it only makes sense that one of our two major political parties would need lessons on how to talk to the majority of the human race. and the republican seminar -- this republican seminar had some great advice on connecting with the ladies. >> the gop is teaching its male candidates not to use phrases like todd aiken did legitimate rape, so they are s

brad burn from alabama won a congressional seat there and part of the gop establishment, not of the teahe federal side, the reason that i think wall street money and business sector money in general is going to go more and more towards shaping federal politics is because the fact that the white house and congress in general needs to wake up and realize that they cannot keep playing chicken with the u.s. economy and with our business interest, as well as people's personal interest and they are nervous about that. they are going to be trying on both sides. the problem has reached that magnitude now. >> i don't think it's the white house that's been playing chicken with the economy but -- it seems to me that the problem for more quote/unquote moderate or establishment candidates isn't money, it's energy. i mean, the tea party has a lot of grass roots energy. those are the folks that will show up at the town hall meeting and yell at you. if they are mad they are going to send you letters and call your office until you go crazy. does throwing more money towards moderate candidates, does that

so where is the gop answer to those issues? you know, i'm looking forward to their answer to that, as i am looking forward to their alternative to the affordable care act. i don't think they have one. and for the president to focus on income inequality, especially in this new year, and especially starting it off with the state of the union address next year, you've got two issues that are going to play well into this, and you mentioned them. the unemployment insurance that expired. i think it was on saturday for 1.3 million people. and then you have minimum wage. >> minimum wage. >> right. the new minimum wage where some states have increased the minimum wage. but still, with so many people out of work, and those who are in work still struggling, barely to make ends meet. those two issues will dovetail nicely into a larger discussion about income inequality, which is something that, you know, lots of americans care about and want to see something done. >> you know, josh, the -- in terms of the minimum wage, there is actually re

the gop mainstream striking back. the unusual display of reasonable behavior by house republicans this week should be seen as a retreat, a change in tactics, but not a surrender, the implications for democrats are clear. they had better raise their game. bill, let me ask you, do you think democrats see this unification as a real game-changer? and the moderate stance that ryan seems to be demonstrating and kind of running in parallel with john boehner? >> i think they should. i think we need to come to grips with the possibility that john boehner is a genius, that he's not this inept, pathetic leader that we've been mocking all year. we've been sort of egging him on. >> can we rerack that statement so we have it on a constant loop? because i don't know if that's ever going to happen again. okay, sorry, didn't mean to interrupt. >> he has a very delicate task. he has to prevent the tea party from continually shutting down the government, which can lead republicans to lose the house. he also, even tougher, even trickier,

but the gop continues to struggle to rebrand itself. e latest "wall street journal" poll shows the democratic party is seen as more compassionate and willing to reach across aisle. they're the party to pass immigration reform more than the republicans. what grade would the gop give itself in 2013. good morning to you, sir. self grading. after a year when you look at the report and you look at where things stand now, is this a fair time to do a report card or should we wait a little while? >> we try to win every day as far as the committee is concerned, we operate on score cards every day and every week and every month. what i would say we had to change about the national party, at least here at the iron sea, overall on everything we are talking about, we had to become and continue to become a year around operation. i think over the last maybe couple of decades, the rnc had become an organization that shows up once every four years, five months before an election in a massive way and electric becoming a u-haul trailer of cash hooked on to

the criticism is a valid one of the gop plans. en you get beyond the sound bite, what have you got, what they say and most often sounds like elements of the affordable care act. rick, you can respond to that. >> but here's the problem. look, the affordable care act tries to put people in four different plans. i think they're iron, aluminum, tin, and rust. you can't put 300 million people into four plans. that's saying people can only live in four kinds of houses, four kinds of cars, four kinds of restaurants. only have four types of potato chips. look, that's never going to work. why not have -- >> i don't think that's fair. i don't think that's fair because my four categories actually entailed 24 different plans. i have a 25-year-old daughter who enrolled through new york. she had 77 different options. >> and if you live in new hampshire, you have one. >> jonathan, i want to ask you this. is there a credibility problem here on the part of the gop? lindsey graham told "the new york times" that this is the raging policy debate going

i would argue that very clearly it is that the gop took control of the house.de it their mission to as senator mitch mcconnell said to make him a one-term president. misch mcconnell was on board with that and to that end has filibustered most of his nominees. and to alex's point, thank goodness for the reform change. we can expect there will be people in high places that are critical to ensure that his agenda is actually implemented. we'll have to see those changes happen. it's definitely premature. i think there's a lot that can be done. he's tried to enact several things relative to comprehensive immigration reform, the american jobs act, all of those things that he's tried that they have single handedly blocked and the american people have been kind of bamboozled because the republicans have been successful in the narrative that it is a failure of a presidency rather than the failure of the house-led gop. >> alex, in your article last month you wrote about the obama care obsession and what would happen. let me quote from your article. without doubt, healthca

, the people who has party and gop, they rallied around their candidates. aybe more significantly, they rallied against the opposition. that is what we show here. divided in some ways but rally affected -- the rally effect at the end is still there. >> thank you. next we will have william miller flagler college and i call john burton from ohio university. enemies?" "who needs >> thank you. always appreciate the state of the parties conference. it is interesting to pat -- point out that if we go back to the 2009 state of the parties, i remember one conversation about the tea party. it was at lunch and it was not very kind. it was much more of a they will have these nice little rallies and dress up and be gone in a few months. a few months later we started to see the idea that robert boatwright talked about, or individual elected officials being primary within their own party and the effects that could have. what we are going to talk about today is a little bit different than looking at actually speaking with activists or tracking money back to causes. instead

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yesterday he fended off the gop attacks. >> the bottom line is this law is working and will work intohe future. we're going to keep on working to fix whatever problems come up. you got good ideas? bring them to me. let's go. but we're not repealing it as long as i'm president. we're not going to walk away from it. if i've got to fight another three years to make sure this law works, then that's what i'll do. >> and then there is tomorrow when the president will focus on those so-called young invincibles. he'll join chris matthews for a town hall meeting at american university in washington, d.c., on "hardball." then back on the hill republicans are not backing down. three different committees are holding hearings on health care reform today in the gop-led house. they're putting their focus on highlighting details of cancelled coverage and higher costs. >> the reality is under this system you're going to have millions of winners. i'll be the first to acknowledge that. but you'll have tens of millions of losers as well. you're getting government into a marketplace that it doesn't unders

. >> months ago, you predicted that the gop would agree to ease the sequester.ut that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> thank you. >> coming up, the limits of leverage. inside the long shot fight to defund obamacare. >>> months before the new obamacare exchanges were to go into effect, nearly three times as many voters said the law made them worry, rather than reassure. that's according to a fox news poll in late june. in late july, a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers, who thought they saw a way to do that were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father, and a working-class, irish-american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerkship, the youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite, and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate. repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promis

the gop? >> they're pretty divided. when i say they, the establishment republican leaders in both the house and the senate on the one hand, and some of these outside conservative tea party groups that are raising money. and look, the frustration that you saw ryan talked about john, john boehner, the speaker of the house, who really took off after some of these groups, said they're ridiculous, they lost credibility, are you kidding me. he's felt frustration because he thought doing the government shutdown over a demand that they knew that the president would never accept, namely, defunding obama care, while on principle may have been right, politically was a dead end, and they felt it worked very much to their detriment. we saw the public opinion polls show tremendous dissatisfaction with the republican brand after that. he said, we don't want to go down that road again. this obviously isn't a great deal, but it's a deal that avoids a government shutdown for two years and that's not nothing. >> we haven't seen that in a l

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did the gop sell out or was it the best bargain they could get? >>> the house passed a bipartisan budget bill on thursday avoiding another government shutdown fiasco but raising anger among some conservatives who think the deal is a bad bargain for republicans and the country. >> it's worse than the status go. the status quo will spend $60 billion less than the budget deal over the next two years. over ten years, this deal will add $7 trillion to the deficit. it does not significantly alter our curious. we're still on a course for disaster. >> we're back. james freeman also joins us. dan, is rand paul right or is paul ryan, the architect of this deal, right when he says it's a small step in the right direction? >> i think congressman ryan has the better of this. it's a small step in the right direction, especially with the fact they've now got federal workers paying more into their pensions. this kind of corresponds with what republican governors have been doing in states. it makes it seem as if the republican governors at least have a strategy. a

next week, the upper chamber will take up the budget, a handful of key gop senators are anxiously facingtea party primary challengers, though. so as you might expect, the rumors of a filibuster are already swirling. we can only hope that senator patty murray can work her magic and use the skills she picked up as a schoolteacher to corral the kids back to the table to good behavior. as for co-author paul ryan his newfound balanced approach could be a signal he's gearing up for 2016. >> with the budget i passed in march, that's what i really want. balance the budget, pay off the debt, don't raises taxes. but i know in this divided government i can't get that budget. she can't get the budget she passed. she can't get into law. we know that. we could keep doing that and shutdowns or look for common ground and get something done and keep things moving. >> as for speaker boehner, well, he's finally figured out what the rest of us have known all along. the source of strength for the cuckoo caucus tea party is not popularity in the polls or establishment and don't care that a majority of america

. >> reporter: months ago few predicted the gop would agree to ease the sequester.ut that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> thanks a lot. thank you. >> coming up, the limits of leverage. inside the long shot fight to defund obamacare. >>> months before the new obamacare exchanges were to go into effect, more than three times as many voters said the law made them worried rather than reassured. that's according to a fox news poll in late june. in late july a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers who thought they saw a way to do that were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father and a working-class irish-american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerkship, the youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite, and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding man

. >> months ago, few predicted that the gop would agree to ease the sequester.ut that was before an ill-fated tea party power play that began in earnest last summer. >> thank you. >> coming up, the limits of leverage. inside the long shot fight to defund obamacare. >>> months before the new obamacare exchanges were to go into effect, nearly three times as many voters said the law made them worry, rather than reassure. that's according to a fox news poll in late june. in late july, a majority of americans wanted it repealed. a new generation of gop lawmakers, who thought they saw a way to do that, were selling their strategy last august. >> i am very pleased to introduce senator ted cruz. >> 42-year-old ted cruz of texas is the son of a cuban refugee father, and a working-class, irish-american mother. princeton, harvard law, supreme court clerkship, the youngest state solicitor general in the u.s. he ran for senate in 2012, upset the gop favorite, and headed to washington with what he believed was one overriding mandate. repeal every word of obamacare. >> i promi

the gop was now up by three. meanwhile, conservative efforts to kill the law continued with skirmishes in venues you wouldn't expect. sleep train' ending soon! get 3 years interest-free financing on beautyrest black, stearns & foster, serta icomfort, even tempur-pedic. plus, get free delivery, free set-up, and free removal of your old mattress, and sleep train's 100-day low price guarantee. but hurry, sleep train's interest-free for 3 event is ending soon! superior service, best selection, lowest price, guaranteed! ♪ sleep train ♪ your ticket to a better night's sleep ♪ >>> welcome back. conservative republican lawmakers tried to defund the affordable care act and failed. but that hardly meant the law was succeeding. its wobbly rollout presented a fresh opportunity to a new generation of anti-obamacare activists who had been waiting to take the fight to the streets. >> if the markets are panicking, they have as yet to show it. >> october 1, 2013, arlington, virginia. >> there have been glitches in the first day. h

the message is the gop is crazy. we need executive action to pursue things on the environment.e to circle the wagons. keep the liberals on board, protect obamacare and pursue new things especially on the environment. >> everyone says such stupid things in this town. who's the last person to insult the other. i applaud boehner's office for accepting the apology. >> it isn't fatal. podesta is a veteran. he's somebody that people think will bring much needed balance inside the white house. so there's a lot of people who are still supporting him. >> even speaker boehner, though, he's not in the mood technica y particularly to play. take a look at this video. >> the american economy, the greatest in the world, is stuck in a new normal. high unemployment, stagnant wages, slow growth. we can do better. here in the people's house, we're focused on getting our economy moving again, passing good jobs bill, energy. >> and the bill is passed. >> education. >> the bill is passed. >> agriculture. >> and the bill is passed. >> health care. >> the bill is passed. the bill is passed. the bill i