congressman baird, you were a member, if i recall, of congress back in 2000, 2001 where the composition was 50/50 and then it changed when senator jeffers switched to independent. if it happens again, 50/50, what would that mean for legislation at this critical time in american history? gridlock? >> well, it might. it might, but, if you ask the average american, if you were in a group and half the people wanted one thing and half wanted another, should you go out and fight it out or try and find out where you have common ground? the trouble we have seen, recently, and it is much worse than it was ten years ago, the trouble we have seen is that there are some subset of our members of the senate who do not want to find common ground, they are absolutists and in transient and block every effort to compromise and if we do that the country is in trouble. >> gregg: a decade ago, tom daschle and trent lott, ther the party leaders and got along