>>> hours since the deal to end the government shutdown. and the far right is in full crack-up mode. sarah palin is hinting that shell primary establishment candidates. house republicans are turning on ted cruz. and business groups are standing by john boehner, but plotting against the tea party. and why are they in such disarray? because president obama knocked them out with one political punch after another. >> let me repeat, i will not negotiate over congress responsibility to pay bills its already racked up. you dont negotiate by putting a gun to the other persons head. or worse yet by putting a gun to the american peoples head. we cant make extrorgs routine. do whats right. open the government and make sure were paying our bills. >> the tea party wanted this fight and they got one. but the president refused to let them dictate the conversation. refused to negotiate over the full faith and credit of the united states. refused to give an inch. and its not me saying that, just ask john boehner. >> we fought the good fight. we did everything we could to get them to the table and to negotiate. they just kept saying no, no, no, no, no. >> when the right wing was being unreasonable, the president gave them a simple no. and guess what hell say if they try it again. >> is this going to happen all over again in a few months? >> no. >> so is it going to be easy for the tea party to bounce back from this defeat? im going to channel the president here. no. joining me now is congressman allen grayson, democrat of florida. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >> congressman, does the president have the tea party on the ropes? >> i think so. i think that ordinary americans are with the president. theyre appalled by the tea partys tactics where they come to the president saying if you dont let us steal your car, well burn down your house. theyre appalled by the way the tea party cheered on the fact we put our credit at risk for a generation to come. and theyre appalled by the enormous expense, the fact that this temporary shutdown ended up costing america $24 billion. thats almost $100 for every man, woman, and child in this country. frankly, they want their money back and the tea party out of their lives. at this point the tea party is no more popular than the klan. >> some on the right are already threatening those who didnt push the defund movement all to the end. sarah palin wrote on facebook, and im quoting it, rest well tonight for soon we will focus on important house and senate races. lets start with kentucky. from sea to shining sea we will not give up. weve only just begun to fight. from sea to shining sea, congressman. what will happen if the right launches a tea party primary fights all over the country? >> i think its already clear to people that the republican party is on its way out. the republican party is going to go the way of the wigg party. and the reason is simple. they simply wont do anything useful for ordinary people. whether the issue is jobs or housing or health care or transportation, whatever the issue might be, they got nothing. and its not our fault, but theyve got nothing. they simply want to bring about the end of days as quickly as possible. that is the ultimate tea party republican desire to bring about the end of days. the republican partys become the largest suicide pact in history. and i hope they dont take us with them. >> now, you say they got nothing. the president says the fever is broken. has the fever been broken? >> no. not yet. the fever will be broken when we vote them out of office and take back the house next november. but in the meantime, we have to protect ourselves. and we have to protect ourselves specifically from their destruction. their desire for destruction that keeps welling up over and over again. now, ive introduced the simple two-page bill. hr-213. it funds the government for the rest of the year raises the debt ceiling until after the elections when we can safely deal with these problems. and im hoping people will flock to it. weve had over 20,000 people come to our website end the lunacy. we want to end the lunacy. they feel the same way the president does. theyre tired of this. they want their needs met. they want congress to listen to them and not get sucked into these artificial crises that drag us lower and lower to the bottom. >> rush limbaugh says the problem is there werent enough ted cruzs. listen to this. >> can you imagine in this last fight if we would have had five or ten ted cruzs. can you imagine the different dynamic? can you imagine -- if we had five or ten ted cruzs, wed win a lot of debates. if we had 45 ted cruzs in the senate, wed come close to winning every vote. >> clearly the right wing talkers arent giving up. but the poll numbers for the gop is in the tank. will the leadership of the gop keep listening to these talkers? >> listen, boehner has to go. boehner dragged this country with its tea party allies through the mud for two and a half weeks. completely unnecessarily. there was no purpose to this whatsoever. the bill we voted on late last night was the same bill we could have voted on two weeks ago, two months ago, two years ago. and the fact is that john boehner has become a short order cook for the far right wing. would you like some french fries or cheese with that? thats what he does. he takes whatever they want and he lays it out there as if thats the right thing to do. another thing about him is for nine times before this week, before this month, he stepped back from the abyss and let democrats do the responsible thing which is to keep the government running and to pass bills that needed to be billed. and this time he did not. and in doing so, he became useless. at this point, dr. jekyell has become mr. hyde. he has to go -- everyone who is willing to cater to the tea party has to go so americans finally get the government they deserve. >> congressman alan grayson, thank you for your time. >> thank you too.
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