you a sense of how big an active that challenge is with the united states. here's one little piece of it. the conventional wisdom in washington is at the republican party to take control of congress. at least the house, and next year's election, historically speaking, they have a good chance of doing that. if that happens, that will mean any senior republican, anybody who is the top republican on a committee right now or who used to be a committee chair, the last time republicans were in charge, all top republicans, all leading republicans, are gearing up to take back over and wield power again. under the assumption that they are going to do well in next year's election. particularly being a committee chair, if you are in line for that sort of thing, committee chairs, it's a boring couple of words. but they run the show on capitol hill. they kind of run the legislative branch. so, the republicans who are potentially in line for those leadership jobs, the republicans take control again, they are really stoked right now. they are making their promises,