does the president really want a result or does he want another cudgel to beat up republicans so he can get political advantage in the next election? leaking this out does set things in the wrong direction. look, the question that we always have to ask ourselves, particularly with this white house, is the president looking for a partisan advantage or is he looking for a bipartisan law? this is the president torpedoing his own plan and shows me that he s really not serious. there are many people who think democrats bring up these ideas as wedge issues. they don t really ever want to pass them because then they would no longer have the republicans to blame. you know, not i can t bring up the geek factor because it s not fair, but the republican young breed aren t even as cool as john mccain. mccain is pretty cool as a personality. these guys, this new crowd. the key word in what john mccain said there was another, another cudgel. yeah. there s been in other words, the democ