David Gergen: Well, Republicans are pretty much in disarray. The one thing they agree on is that they're warning about the deficits, that there's too much spending, and I think they will be dragged kicking and screaming to any more intervention of the kind we've been talking about, but they have not yet come up with a compelling alternative, one that has gained popular recognition, so—
Anderson Cooper: Teabagging! They've got teabagging.
Gergen: [laughs] Well, they've got the teabagging, but there was an interesting Politico survey that was out today that said that, you know, the president's—the trust level in the president on economic issues is extremely high, and, you know, everybody else in the administration is well below him, but the Republicans are a little below that. So, Republicans have got a way—they still haven't found their voice, Anderson. They're still—this happens to a minority party after it's lost a couple of bad elections. But they're searching for their voice.
Cooper: It's hard to talk when you're teabagging.
Anderson Cooper is a Genius
I know I'm not telling you anything you don't know, but feast your eyes on this sterling bit of evidence nonetheless:
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