molly ball, ross douthat, tracy seffel. senator cory booker was sworn in today.help but notice not a lot of senators did. dana bash estimates there were only about a dozen democratic senators and a few republican ones. this is right before the senate was supposed to vote. what do you think? is this hazing the newbie? >> it's a big mistake. we know about cory booker's penchant for heroism, pulling people out of burning buildings, saving kittens from trees, that kind of thing. if something goes wrong at the capitol, those 15 senators, he's getting them out alive. everybody else, who knows. they're on their own. >> very nice. got to think ahead when it comes to cory booker. he's like underdog, always there. we appreciate it. the political panel is next. life's an adventure when you're with her. and it always has been. but your erectile dysfunction - it could be a question of blood flow. cialis tadalafil for daily use helps you be ready anytime the moment's right. you can be more confident in your ability to be ready. and the same cialis is the only daily ed tablet a

ross douthat i believe is a republican. at least he wants republicans to thrive. kevin madden. cnn political commentator and democratic strategist, donna brazile and chief white house correspondent for politico, m e michamike allen. kevin, unfair analogy? >> not really. you remember at the end of "apocalypse now" where there's a water buffalo that's cut into a whole bunch of different pieces? in many ways, that's the political system now. that's something i said from the very beginning of this whole mess is that there's not going to be a whole lot of people that come out of this very good. in a very good position. right now, the public i think is still casting blame on the whole political system. >> they're not. they're casting blame much more on republicans. there's a new poll tonight, "the washington post"/abc shocking difference, 20 point game between what people say about republicans -- >> disapproval over the debt crisis, republicans in congress, 74%. democrats in congress, 61%. president obama, 53%. >> here's my point. those are very high disapprovals across

columnist for "new york times" ross douthat, amy stoddard and margaret carlson.ng from your blog that i found interesting. from your blog. a lot of smart conservatives with deep knowledge of previous eras in our politics and experience in fields with the behavior of the house caucus simply wouldn't fly are projecting their knowledge, their smarts and experience on to a situation that's a lot more out of control than they realize or are willing to admit. you think that this is chaos and it's going to be with us for awhile. >> i actually don't know if it's going to be with us for awhile. the absolute best case you can make for john boehner's leadership over the last few weeks, and i'm not making a strong case for his leadership, but the best case is basically he gave the faction that overran him enough rope to hang themselves with and let them run through the shutdown and get it out of their system and now maybe things are going to be a little saner. that's i think the best case scenario for why he allowed things to go as far as they did. better to have a shutdown

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joining us, the democratic strategist, maria cardona, our cnn political commentators, ross douthat andur cnn money tech correspondent, lori siegel. ross, you wrote a fascinating column in yesterday's "new york times" comparing the rollout of obama care to the war in iraq. >> right. obviously the underlying policy issue is totally different, but what you have here is something similar to what you saw with the bush administration and post invasion planning where i think if you look back to 2003, even people who are opposed to the iraq war were surprised by the fact that the bush white house had botched something so basic as figuring out what we do the day after we take baghdad. this is a similar case, where look, there are all kinds of reasons that conservatives were skeptical about this law but i think almost nobody anticipated that the obama white house, so famous for its tech savvy, its ability to build the best campaign websites in the history of campaign websites, would fail fairly catastrophically in the rollout in ways that are going to take weeks, maybe months to unwind. >> we kn

. >> ross douthat, thanks so much for your insight this morning. >> thanks for having me. >>> still toe in the "newsroom," despite the loss and all the republican infighting, john boehner got a standing ovation last night. so what's next for the house speaker? ido more with less with buless energy. hp is helping ups do just that. soon, the world's most intelligent servers, designed by hp, will give ups over twice the performance, using forty percent less energy. multiply that across over a thousand locations, and they'll provide the same benefit to the environment as over 60,000 trees. that's a trend we can all get behind. ♪ "first day of my life" by bright eyes ♪ you're not just looking for a house. you're looking for a place for your life to happen. >>> there are plenty of americans still angry about the dysfunction in our government. but sometimes you just got to laugh. or you cry. we choose laughter this morning. >> and we shouldn't be in a good mood, ladies and gentlemen. as of what, andy, like two hours ago? three hours ago? looks like congress has finally made a deal to reopen t