as more than one person said over the past couple weeks, two steps to the process. one is having the guts to stand-up. i say this as a lawyer who sat through a lot of mediations and a lot of negotiations. you have to stare down your opponent. when the opponent breaks, as he has, you have to convert that into a win. yeah. you can have an advantage on a battlefield. if you can t convert it to a victory the question is the thing is, if they don t take boehner s bill, then reid s bill comes up. so what happened? i think, first of all, what pat was talking about occurred yesterday in the conference meeting where eric cantor said you have two options, take this bill or vote on harry reid s bill. they played a video segment from