i think it's gotten the attention of a lot of republican congressmen tonight and democrats as well. i take exception with paul that this is only a republican problem. when democrats negotiate it's called negotiations. when republicans negotiate it's called blackmail. but we're at a point now where i think you're going to see republicans open up the vote on the house floor soon this, week. >> do you think it was a mistake to tie all this to obama care before? >> i wouldn't have done that. we just don't -- the math doesn't work. we don't have enough votes to do that. as a matter of fact, i think it's pretty clear now that if we had stepped back and let obama care's miraculous rollout, that fantastic well-choreographed rollout just to get out there on its own, that would have done more damage and aided the cause of changing obama care or getting rid of it than anything we've done in the past few weeks. right now do i think we have a solution, though, and it's border security. we put up a fence around the mexican restaurant where ted