from sequestration? i think that is part of what is driving this. >> neil: congress isn't helping its own cause here. i mean, obviously you can't multitask. we're all capable of that. but the seem much more intent on investigations, which might be fine. clearly warranted. but a lot of of other crucial issues, like how to deal with spending and the deficit, the debt, entitlements, that seems, including simplifying tax reform, put on a very distant back burner. >> in large measure the congress we have now essentially reacts to whatever a hot news item is. this is not a pro-active congress. not a pro-active government. and maybe, maybe we should be grateful. when they have been pro-active, i.e., obamacare, it's been disastrous. >> what do you think karl rove'ç argument is, if you're all scandal all the time, not that some investigations are clearly