president, they have had years to plan for this. this isn't, you know, this isn't a disaster that just -- >> potentially, i agree. look, here's something that's really revealing. there were 36 house democrats today who voted in districts from which obama won 55% or less. 28 of those 36 voted for the upton plan. there were 156 districts where he won 55% or above. only 11 of them voted. these are the vulnerable democrats beginning to distance themselves, voting for something they probably knew would never happen. i'm not sure all of them would have voted for it if they thought it could. >> that doesn't take into account the senators who are worried about this who are up for re-election. generally, second term presidents don't do well, they generally lose seats in the midterm election of their second presidency. they were thinking after the shutdown you know what, we might actually gain seats because they were riding so high. now they have totally flipped on that. >> we were talking about the gop, we were ready to -- >> not that they're doing so great either. it's a race to the bottom.