putting it back on track and this does nothing. >> ezra, were you surprised about the end of the medical device tax repeal? >> as you said, tim and others are doing a good job of mobilizing against it. the people aren't getting anything. this began as a sort of anti-obama care attack. and the fundamental problem, the reason this has always been so hard to solve is that at this point you're seeing a war that's not really over policy anymore. it's over kind of negotiating principle of whether or not you can extort concessions in order to keep the government and go to the debt ceiling. it's part of the reason this thing wasn't going to go anywhere anyway. is that senate democrats weren't going to help. house democrats were going to oppose so they couldn't go to them for votes. the one thing i will say when