quick float when you had boehner and the president agreeing on the change and the way social security is done and the leader of the house republican campaign committee greg walden say, you know what, we're going to run against the democrats. president obama is the party of cutting social security. >> right. >> this is where it gets tricky. mark is right, this is sort of -- it's a little bit of a trap. what boehner and mcconnell would like to see in their -- the type of things they have been talking about, this is not good politics, not good low cloud torl politics, reforming and changing the way it's going. it's easy to demagogue in the campaign trail. there's a lot of trepidation here. on the other hand, this is their last best chance. >> exactly. >> obama is a democrat. this is a nixon to china moment. harry reid is not going to do this deal.