passion. now, i obviously, have a different view than they do. but you have to respect the fact that they are doing what they believe was fulfilling their commitment to the voters that sent them there. and we all know that the speaker has a great deal of difficulty in controlling 30 or 40, whatever it is, of his conference. which would then make him have to rely on democratic votes to achieve something, and obviously, he doesn't want to do that. it is a very difficult situation. but one that i'm afraid that when government is shut down for a few days that the american people will blame congress. and that is not some clairvoyance on my part. >> you can see the cnn poll, they said they were acting like spoiled children. who do you blame, republicans,