red hots like ted cruz and michele bachmann, the tea party was not some game. claim more than just political casualties on the right. $24 billion have been drained from the economy according to standard & poor's. economic growth predictions have been slashed. consumer confidence saw its biggest decline since the bankruptcy of lehman brothers. and the prospects of a credit downgrade is still alive out there. and then there's the untold human toll of all this. thanks to the shutdown, small business loans were stalled, thousands of private sector workers were furloughed. and the national institutes of health had to slash cancer treatment trials. that's just the tip of the iceberg. andrew sorkin is co-host of "squawk box" and jim cramer is host of "mad money." let me start with andrew on this. can you put -- i guess it's hard to put a price tag to some of this as intangible. but it seems to me if you're out there standing on the cliff for