there's no fire like friendly fire and he caught it in the back every time he tried to work with obama. shannon: brad, does the tea party solve all of it? >> come on, please. shan i don't know, dick, let's have real history here. the first two years of the obama administration, they control the white house, the house and senate. you guys controlled it all and the president wasn't able to deliver on his own budget when he controlled every branch of government. it wasn't the republicans who let him down. it was the democrats who let their president down when he was elected supposedly with a mandate. he failed time and time again, not on divided government, on his own government. shannon: dick? >> he passed health care! >> shannon: i'll let you make a prediction. but not a single republican vote there. and for some, that's concerning that they couldn't find some little tiny place of agreement. >> i think part of the problem was not convincing the republicans to vote for it convincing them they wouldn't get beat in a primary if they did. that's what's happening in washington on both sides of