is what republicans don't do. when reagan or the bushes, when they're elected, they come nand they act like, oh, we're in charge, everybody out of the way. when we come in, we're like "kumbaya," let's hold hands. i think it makes us nice people, but it may cost us dearly in november. >> what was the problem? why did the country all of a sudden shift so dramatically over the past year and a half or so from the democrats and president obama to what's going on now if you believe so many of the public opinion polls? >> because we have a short attention span. i mean who won the mtv music awards last night, the other night? see? you forgot already, wolf. we just don't -- we forgot already, at least it seems like a small majority of americans may have forgotten that the mess we're in was not caused by barack obama.