great loss for the for significant seriousness in the u.s. senate on economic policy to have the gang of six go away? are they showing any promise? they were working hard. i m not going to take that away from them. i thought it was very brave that tom coburn was going toe toy to on taxes. it was something very promising about that. something very promising until the day coburn dropped out of it. the senate has had a lot of these gapgs. there was the original gang of six. the wyden/bennett process. and what they all have in common is failure. the gang of five now is not done yet so maybe they ll pull it out. but what doesn t seem to work is pretending that simply by getting in a room and saying you re going to be willing to overcome the forces of inertia and polarization in the senate you can actually either do it yourself or get other people to do it. what tends to happen is you get a lot of good press for a while and then realize nobody outside the walls of that room is a, going t