are just so always used to like, oh, a crumb. well, it s a crumb! and the republican party is like, well, they have a sort of all-in, we better get everything or we feel like we ve been betrayed. so the logics are so different. but the other thing that strikes me, how low has the bar got for governing? the gop has basic motor skills. they re not putting spaghetti on their pans and juice on their heads. they can chew food and use a fork. we can pass a bill and pass a budget. this is now a miracle of governing. we re so excited by boehner s newfound leadership. i will say, my daughter is 11 and is doing american history this year in her class. and she had to make a board game of how a bill becomes a law. and we played it, the three of us together, my husband, my daughter, and i. and in nearly an hour of playing, we could never actually get a bill all the way through. i was like, oh, my god, this is the 113th congress.