The day after the 2010 US midterm elections, Al Jazeera's Fault Lines convenes a town hall at the Newseum in Washington to argue over what just happened. Host Avi Lewis puts four panelists in the same room: Andrew Langer, a Tea Party activist who runs the Institute for Liberty, Brad Blakeman, a Republican strategist who served as a deputy assistant to George W. Bush, Neera Tanden, chief operating officer at the Center for American Progress and a veteran of both the Clinton and Obama policy shops, and Bill Fletcher, a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies. An audience in the room presses them with questions of its own. The debate turns on what a Republican comeback and a stalled Obama agenda mean for the next two years, from the size of government to the party's own direction. Lewis moves the panel through disagreements on the Tea Party's staying power, Obama's next moves, and where each side thinks the country is actually headed, without smoothing over the friction between them.