worked for usda not 24 years ago. we could have waited all day. we could have had a media circus said the deputy chief of staff at the white house. but we took decisive action and it's a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere. jim mussina didn't ask if the decisive action might have been like sending dreyfus to devil's island. it is a good example of how to respond in this atmosphere, this atmosphere. this atmosphere exists because the people around him let this president be dumbed down. the question used to be fire it up, the rhetorical question, ready to go. the question now is fired it up. the answer is not ready because we can't afford the position of looking insufficiently presidential and providing a media circus.