choices about compromise. if you get the republicans keeping the house majority, the democrats keep a narrow senate majority and a lot of new members are more to the extreme, then you get more of the same, if not worse. ryan, you saw it in the interview i did with peter king, the republican congressman from new york, almost two parts of the republican party right now are merging very different, not only on domestic issues but on national security issues. yeah, that s sort of interesting. on the right and the left, there s this sort of populist anti-government movement gathering around civil liberties issues and what pete king, what king would call isolationist. i don t think rand paul considers himself an isolationist. but that divide, look, rand paul is still a bit of an outlyer. he s the only one worked up on the nsa spying. in the house, there s a little more of a paul wing. i think that s where the tea party energy is and where the energy is in the republican party. let me pl