i'm sure the time they were making that vote, they weren't sure how the politics were either. any more than the people that made the decisions to make sure social security knew how the politics would play out or folks on the civil rights act knew how the politics were going to play out. they were not bound to win, but they were bound to be true. now we've got middle-class americans that don't have medicare, don't have medicaid watching the employer-based system fray along the edges and being caught in terrible situations. the question is, are we going to be true to them? sometimes i think about how i got involved in politics.