with you. this also this doesn t just happen in isolation. this happens after we find out what the irs has been doing, the irs scandal over the past year. this happens after all of the nsa revelations where there s a new nsa revelation every week. this happens after we find out there s a bungle justice department attempt to basically, you know, to act in a way that s disturbing to the associated press, to james rossen, to other reporters. this hasn t been the federal government s bright shining year. even if we take all the parties out of it, all the players out of it, americans are sitting back thinking federal government, they are just a bungling group of bureaucrats. yeah. that was the message wasn t it during the 2012 campaign. the federal government has grown. it hasn t done a good job. and barack obama has become the embodiment of the federal government. the republicans perhaps can