healthy division on the right as the different factions try to fight it out? or does that mean something more important about how this moves forward? >> you know, that -- for the red state people, i mean, that kind of confirms what they always thought about the republican leadership in washington, which is that they're much more interested in getting re-elected than in serving what red state and those groups would consider bedrock conservative principles. what i think it does though -- again, if the democrats will take advantage of the opening. instead of just being the party of no, the republicans have come out with all the stuff that if you try to parse it, makes no sense. you know, it makes no fiscal sense. it doesn't make sense in terms of the deficit. you can't make this add up. so now, the thing to do would be to make them defend it and explain how you extend -- make