that we, in fact, do need one another. and not just in the private charity ways that we saw in the shutdown. so part of what happens in the context of the shutdown or even what i heard you saying is, look, my friends and family and people in the community, they come out, they help, but then you don t end up with the kind of justice that can be created only by government intervention. and i m going to keep, you know, grasping at the sanity caucus here. this has been a positive week, i think, was maybe post-sandy, chris christie sees that he was wrong on some of these things. the u.s. chamber of commerce turned on the tea party. there s the big question coming forward is, will the u.s. chamber of commerce, never a friend of democrats, actually fund moderate republicans to countertea party people that are being funded by the heritage and other groups. record-low approval ratings for the republican party. so it s an amazing thing that s happened this week. maybe there will be a change. a
that publicly. right. they will never say that they were complicit in a major failure of this effort and that that s what they were this is what democracy is all about. they re going to play that card. this is what democracy is all about. right. they re going to say as i just said that they were betrayed and they re going to say they won a moral victory. that s always a good line people like to use because they brought it forward. yes, they re going to trot all that out, but poll numbers are poll numbers. outside of the tea party, those people are in terrible, terrible shape. the republican party needs a sanity caucus. the republican party needs some of its i don t even think there are many moderates but just reasonable conservatives to step forward and to take on those people and form themselves into a cohesive unit that has some political muscle on capitol hill. has the president pointed out today what he would like to see happen, his legislative agenda