remarkable political sense. the question is what is the world of feasibility this the point? honestly, that s a question for the parliamentary system of the united states. that is the geekiest book i ever heard on the program. we had such a nice conversation about public health care policy. let me put it this way, what we re talking about in this presidential campaign is sort of surreal. in the end if it has a 68-vote threshold, it won t matter. it seems unlikely they had 60 votes for obamacare. for a while. this is a case while incrementalism works. they could have said without a public option in 2010, we don t want it but they didn t. he built on a very conservative idea of health care reform and said we will take another whack of it down the road. we re now down the road. now the moderate position is, of course, a public option. if they can get that, maybe that would be an expansion of