people. you know. we go through these periods where our politics gets all mixed up. and the truth is we re nostalgic about the past. i am. i know you are. but the truth is, when you lack at our history, there have been a lot of times when congress gets stuck. but we get through it. and the reason we get through it is ultimately the american people have pretty good instincts, and if over and over again that we re not addressing the core problems that we have, eventually, they will put in place folks who are serious about getting the work done. let s talk about the problem with the laegs laytive branch the other day speaker boehner said we can t get anything done because we have a divided country, a divided congress. that s the nature of the country. there s an aisle down the center of the house. those aisles have been there.