dysfunction. their leadership announces $30 billion cuts and they want to do 100 billion and what do they come back with? a 20% reduction to air traffic controllers. that seems pretty crazy to me. tell the troops fighting in afghanistan that we are not going to pay their bill. i'm not sure the taliban will understand that. the republicans won in 2010 to govern the house of representatives. there is a fundamental inability to make the trains run on time and make things work. there's no reason to expect that they will pull it together. they are talking about shutting down government. we've seen this before. >> so are you. you just said it yourself. the more people that talk about shutting down government, the more likely it becomes the kind of thing that someone is going to do. i think we all respect the passion that you bring to every argument on the floor and we respect that people go to washington and do this. but you guy are not headed for a compromise and american voters told you in november that they