>> well, alison there's not many times you'll hear me saw this, about you the house republicans just look stupid right now, along with senator ted cruz. i mean, what speaker boehner needs to do is get his caucus together and say, look, guys, we are losing the pr battle when it comes to funding the government, the continuing resolution and debt ceiling. i think they need a singular message. the message should be pass the senate bill. i think that they have a lot of merit in arguing for we do have a problem with spending, so bottom line, house republicans need to compromise, the president needs to compromise, but at the end of the day, president obama has done a masterful job of messaging his agenda. he always does, but he too has