primaries. members are now responding and they won't compromise because it's viewed as an act of betrayal. if you get more mod rats and independents participating in primaries, then you'll get a more functional government. i hope that's what will happen. >> dana, barack obama, whether rightly or wrongly, fairly or unfairly, was elected in some measure, certainly ran on the idea that he was going to end the hyper partisanship of the bush era. i don't think there's any question it's only gotten worse. what's the answer? >> the sound bite you played earlier with harry reid and mitch mcconnell, that's actually very tame compared to other language that's been thrown about from the administration and from both sides. >> anarchist. >> suicide bombers. it could be that some of the republicans find they all have challenges in their districts. i try to take a long view of this. we do not have a very warm and