you can't take back the house, you certainly can't annihilate the republicans. it was a kind of loopy expression, and i think if john was being honest, he'd say he wouldn't have advised the speaker to say it. >> is victimhood now a republican meme? now republicans are all victims too? i know the democrats are sometimes truly victims but are you selling the fact hey we're getting beat up by these bullies. is this the new thing, complaining crying in do you think it works politically? >> i think the president's speech on monday did a wonderful thing for republicans. it got them united and fired up. he said nothing that anybody in any red states would say. he's trying to reach out to me. it was a liberal speech for a liberal interest groups and it did nothing for republicans except uniewunite them i though was a good thing. >> like when he said some people are justifiably skeptical about what big government can achieve. is that one of your big battle cries? >> listen, everybody understands that that was a very liberal speech and your guys were very excited about it. >> you know, look --