journal of politics in washington. they ve got a letter signed by 107 democrats saying we are not going to think about any of this kind of stuff. we ll of course use it as a weapon against the republicans in the 2014 election. i m talking about the president himself which is the point of this debate here today, that he himself, why do we have to be so cynical with his attempt to reach out and question the sincerity as the washington times and other conservative media outlets have done? i think the american public wants us to work together to solve the problem. there is a different between words and deeds. speaking of which i mean alan, you know, you probably have seen the polls from quinnipiac just out and other polling organizations that suggest that president obama s poll numbers are dropping. they ve dropped significantly, you know, in the last couple of weeks. they ve gone up and down but certainly he s been at about 52%. you have congress at 15%. you compare his poll numbe