favor president obama's compromising approach, they prefer it to speaker boehnor's cuts-only plan. we know last night after the president asked people to call their representatives, the capitol hill phone lines have been jammed, so are the republicans listening? is the tea party deaf to these cries on the part of the american people to get this resolved before we are at t-minus two days? does it even matter what the public thinks? >> "t" being the operative letter of the day. for a lot of these tea party members, they are terribly wrong and their view is dangerous, but they believe on principle. when teddy roosevelt won in 1912, we stand ona armageddon ad battle for the lord. that makes this very difficult. also, a lot of republicans are much more worried about losing primaries to candidates to their right than losing general