This week's political gab fest was recorded before a live audience on Wednesday, January 12th at the Sixth and I Synagogue in Washington, D.C.

What follows is the question and answer period from that gab fest.

Okay, so we have time for a few questions.

So anybody who has a question, there's a microphone there.

And there.

And there.

And also there.

Yeah.

Oh, man.

Come down.

I think a balcony.

Sorry.

Yeah, you give them a balcony question.

Yeah, we can do a balcony question. It'll be like Dustin Hoffman and the graduate. But hold on. We've got a question at the microphone before we go to the balcony. You'll have to wait your turn, about it. Okay, so my question is, for the past couple of years, being party of no has worked really

well for the Republicans, and I'm wondering, now that they control Congress, is that going to

continue to pay off for them? Will their party continue, will their base voters continue to

think they're great in principled, or will they start to pay any kind of political price for

it?

I think they will pay a price because, well, they'll pay a price because in the House

they have to actually put forward legislation and that will either get a thumbs up or thumbs

down from the base. Then there will be the question of whether that legislation passes into

the Senate and anything ever gets done whether that legislation passes into the Senate

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