get what he wants. no one on capitol hill is scared of him. you know, i share maureen s frustration, deep, deep frustration. and there really was 90% public opinion on the side of gun legislation. this was the mildest of gun legislation and the mildest imaginable and it failed. in public, president obama was eloquent and in the final analysis, angry and convincing yet again. i think the hope and maybe the fantasy is that barack obama is somehow going to become lyndon johnson and he is going to bend over one legislator after another with both persuasion and threat and all of the levers of power. i just don t know if that politics obtains at all in washington any more, that the independence of senators and the lack of party discipline and all that does not seem to be the same in 2013 as it is. i m not speaking in defense of him. i share her frustration. i share her frustration too.