thef he thought were essential to economic growth. look, he's just trying to get a positioning here where he can oppose republicans as they try for draconian cuts. burks ed, i want to say one other thing about the base. i have a very good friend david mixner on the forefront for gay rights for 40 years and who was in that room today and he called me afterwards and he said it was one the most moving moments-s life. i don't think that we can forget that what happened today was that this president made one of the great civil rights speeches and we've now achieved one of the great civil rights milestones. we have a lot more to do. we also have to focus on the economy. but you know a presidents got to do more than one thing at a time. i want him to come back and fight on immigration and jobs, if. >> where do we go from here, roy. >> i think what will happen is we, you know, after the election, boehner said that we're still dealing with the obama administration a obama agenda. i think that obama has to play a little return there and say,