whatever slug lines poll better? and are you not negotiating? >> i learned a long time ago in politics that what people watch most carefully is when you lose. the speaker and the tea party have lost. they said we are going to stop obama care. they have lost. the president has remained resolute through every effort they've made. and so now they're flopping around like dead fish in the bottom of the boat trying to figure out what to do next. they have no plan "b," and i think that they have to -- the speaker is going to have to come out on the floor and say to his tea party friends, i'm leaving you behind. i'm going with the democrats. me and 25 republicans and all the democrats are going to pass a continuing resolution and a debt limit increase and that's going to be the end of it. he has lost but up to this point he hasn't been willing to come out and admit that he's lost. it's just a matter of time.