sense, dammit, we have to get something done here. we're grown-ups. you want to do something the conservative way, i want to do it the liberal or progressive way. let's find a compromise here. you get some of what you want, you give me something, i give you something. and that was the sense of urgency that you don't have today. again, i'm not going to knock the budget deal they just got through. it's something. it's a -- maybe it's a bunt in baseball terms. it's not a single. it's a bunt. maybe a successful bunt. but it's not great. but it's something. but the idea of doing something urgent, if you think something urgent needs to be done, why don't you do it? >> right. and to your point, chris, you talk about deadlines. this is the only deadline that's mattered at all. we have some news the senate is beginning its vote here on final passage of the budget bill or bunt, we can call it. and as you document, the job of the speaker has always required whipping votes from both parties. in your book -- >> you need to get a debt ceiling -- always requires some help from both sides. and i do tell that story, the great story where reagan came to