joining me now is james pethokoukis, with the american enterprise institute, a cnbc contributor and someone i read regularly. a great pleasure to have you on the show, james. well, you've been a critic of this strategy, from the very beginning. and i have to say the polling out tonight is pretty remarkable. and what's rationalabemarkable is, you have the following. three months of everyone who's anyone in the gop center right establishment say, this is political suicide, please do not do this, this is dumb. and then the tea party went ahead and said, we're doing it. and lo and behold, look at the results. i'll read you some of these poll results. who do you think is more to blame for the shutdown, president obama, 31%, republicans in congress, 53%. 70% put their own political agenda ahead of what is good for the country. do you want to scream, "i told you so"? >> if i could take that just one step further. we got those really just dreadful poll results out, and if you listen to what some of the house members, who left that meeting with the president, what they said, the only thing i can con

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