Why is Morning Joe making all these guest appearances on evening shows on MSNBC? [View all]

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He has to have an agenda considering his own show runs for 3 hrs starting at 6:00a.m. EST. I think he is setting himself up for a run for the presidency in 2016 as a moderate republican. Let's face it, the slate will be clean for 2016 and it's anybody's for the taking. We don't know what state of health Hillary will be in for 2016 and she may not be up for the run. Joe S. has taken on some of the kooks in his party,. He's now taking on the NRA. I think that he's a little bored with the Morning Joe gig, and like most politicians has visions of grandeur, having watched how President Obama's campaign team was able to put together a winning formula and may believe that he can duplicate it for himself.

If the economy continues to putt putt along for the next two years creating on average of fewer than 200K jobs a month, the door could swing open for the right GOP candidate to sail through. Which is why we needed Harry Reid to ram through some form of filibuster reform if the Senate is going to be able to get anything accomplished during this session and I'm becoming more doubtful by the day that it's going to happen.

I'm guessing that if the Repugs choose to avoid defaulting on the national debt, it will be in favor of raising the debt ceiling, but for only a few months at a time like they've stated that they would. This will mean continued gridlock through 2014 and I'm not convinced that by then the voting electorate at large, that doesn't pay as close attention as those on this board do, may be willing to throw the entire bunch out by 2014 or may be ready to move in a different direction. I know that this battle over assault rifles was not part of President Obama's agenda for 2013 and that plus his push for a comprehensive immigration bill, could hurt him if this drags on throughout 2013, with little to show for it. Particularly with 11 million illegal immigrants coming out of the underground economy to legally compete with other low income workers for the few low skilled jobs remaining in the service industries.