favorability rating among non-tea party republicans. this is according to pew. so worth it, david? >> worth it from political gamesmanship, yes. i spend less time worrying about pew research polls and looking what happened here. we have a senate for basically decades now has been the president's club. 100 bureaucratic oligarchs don't reflect american people will and gop senate, frankly in large part doesn't know how to fight. sometimes you fight and you lose but you leave your base, you leave the american people with the impression and the truth that you will fight for them. this is marathon. not a sprint. so i'm no worried about one battle. i'm worried about very long-term future. we grown unfunded liabilities. we're out of control in this country and time we put a stop. jamie: let me let leslie jump things here, most things in life are a marathon, not a sprint. today, leslie, president has a