be doing nothing. >> right. that's why i think -- obviously republicans would prefer that this was not happening to a republican. but at the end of the day, the public animosity flowing toward congress is not actually that partisan. sometimes democrats have slightly more support. sometimes republicans have slightly more support. but the fact is stories like this, all they do is add one more data point to the general belief that congress is full of crooks and corrupt people. what's also interesting is if you ask people their opinion on their local congressman, who they might know a lot more about, they tend to have a much higher opinion. >> one thing republicans are going to have to do is come up with a new name for their convention, that more than half their caucus has to vote for something. it's no longer the hastert rule i'm betting. >> a rule which speaker john