so what happened to dick luger. first -- this was not a secret election. there's millions of dollars on advertising. i knew there was a big election. everybody knew the election was coming up. the voter turnout on the primary, 18%. one in five eligible republican voters. the same thing for democratic primaries. who are the 8%? the most partisan, the most ideological, people are mad about something. if we can get the voter turnout up to 40% primaries, you could have a little bit different result. but right now, the voter turnout is very low. the second thing is $5 million, $6 million flooded in from some of the out of the state organizations which now enforced party orthodoxies. if you benefit, you have millions of dollars of negative ads running against you. my message would be the following -- it said, look, you may run the risk if you do what you think is right and you vote for something that you think is practical, you do run a risk of losing your party's primary. that's true. if you don't, with job approval at 9%. both parties and approval ratings way

bennett which i think was the shot across the back that sent a chill through every sitting -- >> dick lugermike cassell from delaware. >> witch. >> she's not a witch. >> she's just like you. >> sorry, she's not a witch. >> what speaker boehner said the other day where, are you kidding me? these folks are trying to use our members. where was that three years ago? >> he's very new to this wait a second i'm going be an adult. you can't trash a guy for six years for being crazy when he finally stands up and stops being don knots, you don't go after him. >> but he just cost us $28 billion on the shutdown and now he says, oh, my god, i can't believe we did that. >> people can grow. >> yes, he can grow. >> you are relentless. >> it's been long and coming. >> speaker boehner had already grown, he was just hiding it from people. >> he is showing his stuff now. he's the incredible hulk this week. the red hots in the senate have come out in force against the budget deal which passed the house last night. in fact, nbc's casey hunt is reporting not a single republican in the united states senate, the wo

here is what happened to dick luger. this was not a secret election. there were millions of dollars spent. a big election. everyone knew there was an election coming up. the voter turnout in that primary? 18%. fewer than one in five eligible republicans voted. it would be the same way if we had a democratic primary. who are the 18%? they tend to be the most partisan, the most idelogical. people are mad about something. if we could get the voter turnout up to 40% in primaries i think you would have a little different result. right now the voter turnout is very low. the second thing is $5 million, $6 million flooded in from some of the out-of-state organizations which now enforce party orthodoxy. if you deviate one little bit you run the risk of having millions dollars worth of ads run against you. my message would be the following. you may run the risk if you do what you think is right and vote for something that you think is practical and compromise and try and move the country forward. you do run the risk of maybe losing your party's primary. that is