crisis after crisis on extending spending bills, on the continuing resolution, which will probably only go until february, maybe march, only until february, at least. but we're going to see that over and over and over again. so it's not that obama's going to be running against the do-nothing congress. the president is going to be running against the sort of tear-down congress, because that's going to be the mode of the next two years. >> msnbc political analyst, howard fineman, thanks a lot for your time tonight. appreciate pinpoint >> thank you, chris. of course, as you might imagine, after two years of dragging out everything they could, blocking passage of literally hundreds of house bills, stonewalling uncontroversial nominees, denying straight up or down votes to build with majority support, you can imagine what impact bipartisan senate passage of bills supported by the american people has had on some of the most seasoned republican senate veterans. that's right, it hurt their fe-fes. republicans are angry that harry reid has packed the senate's final days of legislation,