threats to derail the funding resolutions, this is all an element of theater. like i said at the beginning, it would be political suicide for a democratic president to embrace social security reform heading into a re-election campaign. why would he ever do it. >> you don't think it's going to happen then? you don't think medicare, medicaid or social security will ab dressed? >> do you? look at what happened in the health care bill when they cut off 500 million of fat from medicare and they got ruthlessly murdered in the 2010 elections for it? by the republican party no less, which wants to decrease the size of medicare. >> of course, they made the spending cuts to one entitlement program to create a brand new one. i would suggest that may not have been the most assured thing for voters. >> if i was helping obama with his communications strategy, i would come up -- this sounds corny, some w some type of slogan, we all have to give. everybody's in. >> i have a good one. ask not what your country can do