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Opposition. if that is your basic approach, if obama is for it, we're against it. if he enacts it, we'll repeal it. if that is your basic approach to government there is no let-up point. no point where you can go back to your constituents. and say okay, now we have to take a step back. the funding of this might be at stake. there is still an incredible appetite on the right for the absolutists, saying no, do whatever you need to do to take it, to get this horrible, terrible thing off the books. there is no let-up point. >> and alex, we saw them use this same energy to win back the house of rep...

The term i was blanking on there. the label in the same poll was not applied to president obama, i think there's a hope on the president's part that the incentive system might be a little different when you look on the senate side for republicans there. and then it becomes sort of -- you look back to what happened. you had these absolutists in the house that were warned to force -- when the shutdown occurred and the polls went south on them, there was enough would beabliness there to pull them back. the hope is, can you replicate something like that. >> in terms of policy, climate change, envi...

And then it becomes sort of -- you look back to what happened. you had these absolutists in the house that were warned to force -- when the shutdown occurred and the polls went south on them, there was enough would beabliness there to pull them back. the hope is, can you replicate something like that. >> in terms of policy, climate change, environment, energy were going to be big areas of focus for the president. i am struck -- we just kind of made it a practice on the show to follow energy production disasters. like this new giant blowout in the gulf. there's these repeated disasters in canad...

Why do they push for this gun hole loophole? it has nothing to do with anything. if a guy or woman wants to buy a gun, they'll find a store to buy it at. why do they want to protect these gun show things which is the big issue here? >> you're right, 199 9 wayne lapierre said -- >> why don't they smartly draw the line at actual gun control which is -- you shouldn't be stopped from buying a certain kind of gun? >> they're absolutists. this is way they've grown their organization. this is how they've remained relevant of being extremists. >> they don't look like good guys in suburbs now. they don...

Understand the constituencies on the other side and how it operates. >> well, i guess, to that degree, are the democrats and president in danger of becoming absolutists. >> certainly, you know, i think this all stems from the problem that we set up in 2010 with the state legislature elections. because those 2010 legislatures were the ones that districted. and when we have the extreme gerrymandering of districts that we do have right now, whenever you're going back into your district and thinking about what's going to keep you reelected, you know, overall we hear the american people saying that...