you have the democratic president making the case maybe the american people will agree more with him in the last 16 days in the sense of what the president said was reckless on behalf of the republicans. he was trying to make the case that maybe it will help him and government has a good role to play. government has grown more popular. including obama care. since the shutdown. of course, obama care, too. but government, which is completely unpopular grew more popular. people realized what was missing from their lives when it shut down. see how long that lasts. you speak to ardent conservatives. do you like social security? 60 million americans are dependent on social security. love social do you like medicare? tens of millions of americans. do you like the u.s. military? all of this is part of big government. and if you just take those three categories, social security, medicare and the military, that s a huge chunk of federal expenditures every year. point is fix governm