>> the tea party is a force for good. but ultimately, it will take a new president, a new congress to get there. am i right? >> it will. but two thoughts we were discussing before the break. e ward gibbons wrote an interesting book in 1776 on the fall of the romans. he looked at the fall of the greeks and he said, in the end, more than freedom, they wanted security. they lost it all -- security, comfort and freedom. they wanted society to give to them, when the freedom they hoped for most was freedom from responsibility, athens ceased to be free. i think you look across the anales of time and you see this pattern of destruction where people in essence get ahead of themselves. paul kinney wrote a book on the scprz fall of great powers and