takes. it's time if they want to run and be anti-obama, a party at war with themselves or restore fiscal sanity in the long run making a deal because they are not going to get harry reid to sign onto a deal that has a lot of things democrats want. that's where john boehner is going to have to be a leader. how can i build a coalition that will make a deal. that deal between murray and ryan is really going to have to be between boehner and reid and the president. >> chuck, to that end, how easy is it to, quote, restore fiscal sanity in an election year. the president isn't running for re-election. certainly there's a thinking there's a chance democrats could take the house. how much are they going to dance around the edges of the question of earned benefit, social security, medicare and so forth. >> here is the thing. you're having less than a year before an election, midterm election that will be dominated by senior voters because midterms are and seniors turn out in greater numbers. remember what happened in the