thorny issue of syria's chemical weapons in a way that has the put the issue to the side now. they can, negotiate this for the next five years. but as long as assad isn't using the weapons, obama has won. he scored it. he scored what he wanted to achieve. if you look at boehner, you know in the last couple weeks he had probably the worst couple weeks in washington. because he is in the center of this -- republican circular foreign squad. obama wisely did not get engaged with negotiating a budget deal or get involved in negotiating a debt ceiling hike. he will get to that's eventually. he sort of stepped back. let the other side, self-emulate. spectacle tonight of ted cruz trying, doing a fake filibuster, while most of the republican party, mitch mcconnell and others are scratching their head and saying this is just really -- dumb. and the republican look like they're -- like they don't have -- a consend us. they don't have a strategy. they can't work together with each other. let alone negotiate with the