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Edmond burke territory here. there's joe scarborough and tom coburn conservatism. you have a democratic president and democratic senate and a divided house caucus. the question is, how do we get over the finish line? we have 9.2% unemployment. the economy is getting ravaged. this is not what a patient on life support needs. >> no, no, no. look, i'm agreeing with you whole heartedly. the play here, this is where boehner is at this point. he's going to go back and find $150 billion. he's going to put it on the table. you are going to have somebody in the tea party not support this no matter what...

Reacting that way? they should look at that same poll and have the same reaction, right? why are they in the position of defending the 20%? it's because they're not going to run in local races -- i'm sorry -- in national races. these are house republicans that are going to run in their local ras. in a lot of the districts they're in incredibly safe republican districts. they think the only way they lose is to -- in a primary to a tea party candidate, so in which case they don't move, because the tea party tells them not to move. so obviously then the tea party becomes incredibly important. so ...