jones, it's how we make sense of investing. ♪ charles: well, the tea party under attack again, this time from a former clinton labor secretary, robert writing on his blog. quote: the president should let the public sea the tea partiers for who they are, a small, radical minority intent on dismantling the government of the united states. as long as they are allowed to dictate the terms of public debate, they will continue to hold rest of us hostage to their extreme itch. extremism. katrina pearson and dade webb, as you can imagine, are fuming. katrina, i want to start with you. i mean, the attack on the tea party has been instant, it's been nonstop and, in my opinion, completely unfair. >> well, it's been completely unfair but, charles, the tea party is dead, didn't you get the memo? how do we go from the tea party, a, not even being real to being a political arm of the republican party to being, yeah, it was an organic party but it's dead to all of a sudden being some grand group that's going to take over the government? i mean, even coming out of berkeley, that's insane. charles: well, i think he's saying they've already taken over