Every time we find a way through one of these crises and say this is the last time and say isnt it great we found bipartisan agreement and we can use this momentum Going Forward to make sure we avoid this kind of crisis in the future. Ive seen this play before, and yet it seems that within days or weeks we just fall back to our old habits of digging trenches and fighting each other more than we talk to each other, and again governing by crisis. I think this time is different just because the depth of the dysfunction was different than ever before. The cries from the American Public were greater than ever before. But we should remember, as this report from the Bipartisan Policy Center on deliver system reform tells us, that there is still enormous room for the two parties to set out goals that we agree on. And if we push aside the most strident extremist voices that largely come from the Tea Party Caucus in the house of representatives, there is so much that we can do. And as my europea