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Because the outcome is a foregone conclusion. >> that's, of course, now president barack obama talking about this gerrymandering and the way that -- in the midst of a redistricting right now. it is a very fraught thing, lawsuit that -- that the department of justice has contested redistricting plan that -- texas proposed as violated the voting rights act. you are in what we could call, i think, safe district in terms of -- >> i think so. i have a man that spent $9 million to lose to me. >> really? i like that trash talk by the way. love it. let's bring it. >> $a 5 million to try to beat me. he...

Republicans generally around the country want tea party support. this is a significant and fairly broad movement. but they don't want to associated with tea party access. i just don't mean race. i think there's real anti-government excess, you know, arguments against social security or medicare or medicaid. you'd have to be in a pretty safe district to associate yourself with that kind of, you know, policy views. so i think it's kind of awkward for republicans. there are, in fact about two dozen house republicans who have joined. i don't think it's going to go too much higher. >> and that may ...

The house. >> the republican party or what we're hear something. >> the house republican caucus is much more conservative than it was ten years ago, or 20 years ago. >> part of that is all their moderates lost. >> exactly. all their moderates lost, and there's a strain of thought that is -- it's not quite libertarian, but it's fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders' intent and anti-government. and i think this is -- and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. >> richard, take a listen to rush limbaugh today and his reaction. >> they must, my friends, be ho...

Years ago. >> part of that is all their moderates lost. >> exactly. all their moderates lost, and there's a strain of thought that is -- it's not quite libertarian, but it's fundamentalist in terms of constitutional rights and, you know, founders' intent and anti-government. and i think this is -- and that sort of thing just comes out, i think. >> richard, take a listen to rush limbaugh today and his reaction. >> they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every single democrat who voted for this needs to know, safe district or not, they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from...

Doesn't -- >> an interesting aside from robert gibbs saying president obama, that last night the action in the congress, the passage of health care reform, meant more to president obama than any election night and gibbs says that what the -- what all of this has shown is that president obama is willing to make the tough decisions and, again, the democrats certainly trying to underscore he had to make several tough decisions over the last couple weeks about how to get this through. we've been talking a lot today about the reaction to what happened last night. many conservatives today reacted ha...