art of compromise. you know, it is important to remember, there's a $30 billion cut offered as a compromise proposal. that would still represent the largest single cut in a budget negotiation at this stage in american history so we're not talking nothing. the other picture is a government shutdown, cnn poll found 62% of self identified tea put supporters support shutting down government but 35% of independents and 25% of the democrats. this is about absolutism and not interested in solving problems and you have the danger of a government shoutdown. >> you have a tiny, tiny teeny amount of people in this country controlling what happens to the federal budget? >> yes. that's the danger here. i mean, the extremists are sucking up the oxygen in the political debates lately and they have an all or nothing point of view. government shutdown is the result of that kind of playing chick within the american