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Fight. we've been through several budget showdowns again and again. and you see the same thing. you see congressman brooks and his pals and they are taking hostages. and they're even trying to defy john boehner and eric cantor who would like to come to some sort of compromise. they refuse to recognize that we have divided government. and they refuse to recognize that the congress passed obamacare. the supreme court said it was constitutional. and they want to keep having this same fight over and over again. in groundhog day, bill murray -- >> i want to ask you about the polling data. i know th...

Three years, and talked about this incessantly on the show through debt ceiling fights and budget showdowns and tax fights, and he can never cover the check he writes. the guys behind him won't go along. now we have a new straw in the mix, and that is ted cruz. up to now republicans and the senate have looked at the house and said, oh, trying to lean on them to act like adults and now you have ted cruz and rubio and rand paul trying to mix it up more which makes it only harder for john boehner which means it must really be going down at a fast pace these days. >> dana, david there makes refere...

The conservatives in "the wall street journal" editorial page have been pleading, no, please don't do this. this is bad for all republicans and conservatives. in the movie "groundhog day," bill murray actually became a better person. it took hundreds of those days, but we've got through five, six -- >> this is reverse "groundhog day." >> we've gone through five or six of these budget showdowns since the republicans got control of the house. again and again and again they do manage to get it worked out at the last minute, but the republicans always end up paying the higher political price. obam...

All that is missing is a couple of wookies. excuse us? >> so what happens if this sequester kicks in. >> fewer fbi agents, shortages that could jack up prices. i just want to state first as a matter of policy, there is nothing wrong with wookies, we love them. the big story today in washington is that nothing is happening, nothing at all. and that may not seem like a big story, right? a nothing happening. how could that be a big deal? but if you have been through a lot of these budget showdowns, and i've been through a couple of them now, usually 24 hours or three days or a week before som...

To camp, not be able to do something when it comes to family vacation, having to come back because they thought they saved up vacation pay and find out on the furlough you can't use a vacation day you saved up to save a furlough, even that. you say, is there a misperception? right now, it's a lot of loud rhetoric. the fact they're not -- i think this week, it seems to be this week rhetoric is winning out. >> you know, mike, both sides are going to be damaged by this and they will be damaged in this case, unlike other budget showdowns we republicans always seem to lose whether we deserve to or ...