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Dysfunctional, greg, those are people volunteering that as an open-ended answer, and it wasn't presented to them. the highest in the history of gallup, we see the discontent on where the direction of the country is, the drops, it's not -- this is become a metastasizing event, this shutdown issue, the problem, the debt ceiling, the dysfunction of washington, and a public that sees washington against their interest anyway. and i want to tell you something, they are playing these polls are dangerous, we are dealing with something, and the political class better pay attention. the democrats think ...

Whether we're going to be here in six weeks or not. the unanswered question is what do the republicans actually want? do they want an end to a bouma care, is that it? or do they want lower spending levels than sequestration? it's not clear what they're actually even demanding as a concrete end to all of this. >> right. if you read the op-ed from paul ryan yesterday in the wall street journal, no mention of obama care. we'll hear the talking. michael, we heard david gergen saying he doesn't even think the short-term extension will fly based on the fact the white house continues to say absolutel...

Side. it is very shameful. >> anna, should obama care be linked to the debt ceiling fight? >> no, it should not. but i think it may end up being, frankly bb because of the timing. we are now ten days away from the debt ceiling fight and there is no end in sight to the shutdown issue. i think this will turn into the perfect political storm. where you've got the debt ceiling, budget and government shut down and implementation of obama care which is facing enormous problems as they weren't live on-line. in fact, not live on-line this weekend p. they had to take it down to fix glitches. which are ...

Real reflection what some in the white house think, that's a pr bit of a wrinkle for them. you've got that going on. at the same time, i can tell you there is more of a feeling that this current shutdown issue needs to become a part of the larger conversation related to the debt ceiling. we've been saying that day by day and it's becoming more and more evident that they are looking for a way, republicans are looking for a way on the house side to see if they can take in the larger issues. now democrats from the white house to the senate are saying, we'd be happy to talk about that, but not unt...

Accomplishing anything. >> it is not just bad for the party, it is destroying the country and they don't seem to care in the slight bit. i mean, this is a -- what we now see particularly in the house of representatives is a party that is governing by crisis. we can't pass a budget, so we'll let the sequester go through. and sort of chip away at things a little bit at a time because it is too difficult to -- the only thing they vote on is defunding, again, obama care, and you look back and you think about the gun control bill, the violence against women act. children being slaughtered in new to...