republicans in the house who do not accept the ledge missy of the function of the government have the agree of influence that they have and i think that was a factor. as far as nancy pelosi's concerned, her cooperation started earlier. in 2008, in january, george bush came to us and said we need an economic stimulus, the economy's in trouble and pelosi came back to us and said, we need a stimulus for the economy, republicans won't support spending, they have to be tax cuts so i'm going to say yes but they're the most progressive tax cuts with earned income tax credits and there's a fundamental difference between the two parties today given the influence of the tea party on the sense of how much do you sacrifice of your own views to keep the government going and within the republican party in the house today there has been a scary diminution of that commitment. >> at the risk of not making my