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Disruption has been hyperbolic, it's been an object lesson in something psychologists call status quo bias. a study out of harvard said if you give people a number of investment options to choose from, they usually choose the option of doing what they're already doing, even if that's a bad choice. this has been established in experiment after experiment. we prefer the devil we know to the one we don't. and it's precisely this fear of change that proponents used health reform -- in the infamous harry and louise ad, the -- >> this was covered under our old plan. >> oh, yeah, that was a good one,...

It in 2016. republicans have three years to get their act together or not. >> the other thing, i look at the flip side of this, the republicans sort of collapse in the state of california it amazing too what the state emerged in terms of being a democratic bastion. the opportunity to exist now for democrats have this two-thirds majority in the state legislature in california. you have a democratic governor. jerry brown who knows a thing or two about being governor of california. in california, emerging, for years, it was incubator of reagan, incubator of nixon and now maybe evolving into a new...

The immigration debates. he, you foe, obviously suffered with the tea party grass roots movement. i think that, you know, it's been interesting to see how he has clearly been positioning himself for 2016, coming out strong, sort of trying to rebuild his image as a true conservative when all the ted cruz standoff and the filibuster was happening on obama care. i think that was very interesting to see for 2016. >> wasn't marco rubio fascinating to this long run judgment after that, marco rubio being an early allie on the senate floor, a vote for a cr that funds obama care is a vote for obama car...

Mess. he basically argues they will have to relent. >> when speaker boehner said we're not going to let the country default, clearly what he meant was we're not going to let the country default. if we default, we'll blame the other side. i'm less confident we're not willing to go over the cliff on this. it's been an amazing week and next week more amazing, getting a national object lesson in child psychology. last week about how you deal with your children when they are having a tantrum in public. actually president obama is doing exactly the right thing. he's staying reasonable. not going to ...

With partners to bring the lord's resistance army to an end, and in libya when the security council provided a mandate to protect civilians, america joined a coalition that took action. because of what we did there, countless lives were saved, and a tyrant could not kill his way back to power. i know that some now criticize the action in libya as an object lesson, they point to the problems that the country now confronts, a democratically-elected government struggling to provide security, armed groups in some places, extremists ruling parts of a fractured land. so these critics argue any inter...