>> best example. want to look. the parties are the same. or, compare the fight now to the fight on capitol hill in 2007 when nancy pelosi became speaker of the house after a huge mandate to end the iraq war. 2006. democrats come in. win on the iraq war. first thing that happens. george bush says we will surge. more troops in there. the base goes nuts. they say you have to defund the war. at that point there were two parallel tracks. the supplemental and budgeting process. she could have held the regular budgeting process hostage to the supplemental. the base want herd to do it more than anything. justifiably so, i think. they wouldn't do it. that is the relationship the democratic party has the to the base. embodied. we're seeing the exact reverse. >>en fact, you and ezra mind melded on that. in terms, he asked robert, is it because the liberals are more responsible to the american