contributor. lars, i will start with you. your thoughts on what it means for 2014? >> i think that americans will like seeing when the government shuts down it really doesn't shut down. that the president refuses to negotiate and that republicans have grown a backbone and the tea party is acting as the rudder. i think they are in the right direction this time. >> alexis? >> what do you mean americans aren't feel ing the consequences? what the republican party is doing is pit ing mothers against soldiers. there was a young girl who passed away in philadelphia because her school nurse was furloughed. you're telling me either not seeing the consequences of it? they will go down because of this. >> doctor, what do you make of the malaise coming over the country now, to quote jimmy carter? >> here is the translation psychologically of the malaise. when we elected someone out of