let me finish tonight with why so many people look down on politicians. it's this, this skirmishing, this pie eating contest, this sack race, this absurd picnic atmosphere of one side against the other. waste of a summer afternoon with dank arguments in the basement. this isn't why i love politicians, this is the florida recount, this is al gore picking out which candidates he wants recounted. this is george w. this is baseball, not by babe ruth but by bunt. this is tennis, it's back at the line, this is chicken crap. look, we either have a solid politics or we don't. if we really do have a problem of spending more than we're bringing in, we need to solve it