losing. their narrative is the republican party keeps selling them out and selling them out. their psychology is they are using. stan has done great research. you talk to them and put them in focus groups, they feel like they keep losing and losing on culture wars, overall culture, economically. they feel like the whole country is walking away from them. they want to win. they don't know specifically what they want. i don't remember the name of the congressman, i don't know what we want but we're not going to be disrespected. that is the psychology. they just want to beat obama period. >> john, in that way it seems like a failure of the speaker's job. the fact as joy points out there's a sense of disenfranchisement when in reality massive concessions have been made to republicans spending, budget priorities. talk about the repeal of medical device tax which may be the concession that is given at the end of all this. senate democrats are in support of that. why hasn't john boehner worked