it is happening because a consensus is happening in the country a bipartisan consensus and happening because the president demonstrated significant leadership on this issue. it s important to acknowledge the president s leadership on the issue is the explanation. we are in a strange operation where obama was a champion of y bipartisansh bipartisanship. the only way you see bipartisanship work at this point is if he doesn t show any leadership really at all. jay carney episode was interesting it sounded like he was trying to ghetto bam ma to take credit for it. it is possible that what he was announcing is he is going to pull back from the process. the white house was actually writing legislative language and proposing its own actual ibill which is very rare.