progressive senator than that, but he was able to effect, with senator mccain and later on, president bush, pretty conservative guys, a principled compromise on immigration and actually would have put behind us a problem that still silts there. now, my point is this is what i told no labels. it isn't enough to say you are going to try to reach across the aisle. what i look at with disdain in washington, d.c. is once they brought that principled compromise in, nobody would touch it in either party because heaven forbid if it affected your base all the way. and i feel that that lack of accountability, ed, is what most troubles our nation. people aren't willing to lose their job over health care bill. they are not willing to lose their job over doing what's right in a principled, compromised way. >> the bottom line here is congressman, this country isn't built on people who were political fence riders. this country was built by people