to happen with democrats and republicans. trace: what do you make of that, maria, brad says the president is throwing republicans a bone because he wants to go for this climate change bill and it s going to cost business big time and he knows republicans don t like it but if you give him a bit on nuclear and some of the off shore drilling, maybe they ll acseees. acquiesce. look, this ising in nothing new for president obama. since he came into office he s been wanting to work to work with republicans on every issue. he tried to do it on health care. the health care contains 218 amendments and it contains republican ideas. this is absolutely nothing new for president obama, it shows the american people he continues to be to continue to be bipartisan in this country, it shows he s pragmatic, he wants to find solutions to the problems and he hopes republicans will join us, or suffer at their peril. trace: or does it show he has majority at least until november and he s going t