he has turned the once much heralded republican study committee into a toady group for house leadership. let me put it like this. is there anything concrete and affirmative that this new leadership will actually try to get through the house before the midterms or is it all about holding the line and being anti-obama? >> look, right now, as we know from all the survey data that's been out over the last couple of days, the president is in a very precarious political situation. his numbers are very low. republicans stand to take control of the senate to expand the majority in the house. and so the house agenda is to do no political arm. you won't see anything getting done until after the midterm elections. the election season is fully under way, and that means the political agenda in terms of getting the nation's business done is completely stalled.