all of these issues. so there s everybody knows what everybody was willing to do 20 minutes ago, and so to revert just doesn t make any sense. you re the historian, jon, really quickly. and people may see this as being ideological on my part, it s not on my part. 100 years from now, no one s going to remember john boehner s name, no one s going to remember harry reid s name, no one s going to believe 20 seconds from now that john boehner and harry reid were the architects of any deal or any failure. when does the president realize that he is sitting in the chair of thomas jefferson, of abraham lincoln, of woodrow wilson, t.r., fdr, jfk, ronald reagan. when does he realize that and step up and start doing what abraham lincoln did? yeah. and buy them off, charm them