how this place, the back swath of americans who are paying attention, for speaker boehner to say the president is worried about politic, that may or may not be the case but no one is suggesting that the republicans aren't worrying about politics. it's not that persuasive coming from any of those guys to point the finger and say you're playing politics. give me a break. everybody here is playing politics. >> simply on the substance of what boehner said, it's ridiculous. i mean, just on this one point, right, which is that the president -- the one thing that is absolutely just from any objective standpoint true is that having this debate again in january or february in 2012 is almost the only thing that's imaginable that's worse than what we're going through right now, because anybody who thinks that that would be a prettier or more productive process in the middle of a presidential election. >> it woob nightmare. >> with the iowa caucuses looming and election 11 moss aw months away is out of their minds. >> to say nothing of the