during the previous round of efforts to replace someone on the supreme court when president obama said he believes it's important that a judge have empathy here is something that michael steele said at the time. >> i don't need someone feeling bad for my opponent because of their life circumstances or their condition and short changing me and my opportunity to get fair treatment under the law. crazy nonsense, empathetic. i'll give you empathy. empathize right on your behind. crazy. >> that's when he was feeling in on bill bennett's radio show. that is now in a lot of places online. you can hear that quote. a lot of people talking about not necessarily the best way for him to express those views. let me get to a couple more here. this was at the beginning of this year. this was a pretty big deal. it was after this quote that some people in his own party started saying, hey, time to go. he was asked in a fox news interview if the republicans could take back the house in 2010. it was just the beginning of 2010. and his initial response to that