are they wrong? >> david, you knowang been around wasngton a long time, how the senate works, and the seate rks on consensus, and we have t be able to get that because the republicans -- i repeat for the third time, i want to make sure everybody understas this, obstruionism on steroids. >> no, i wrote that down. that's been the problem. i hope with what happened the last week in the last week of congress, republicans learned they cannot be guided by the tea party, because the tea par is putting them over the cliff. you want to talk about pollig? a rent poll shows american people favored mocrats in congress 42% to 22% to republicans. there are alkinds of polls. the point is they don't matter. we're in a new year o this coness, and what i wanto do is to work toet things done to rebuild this economy. >> we tal aut theresident and his approach to congress, because ultimately you can talk