this point look at a couple of things. number one, the mistake of letting congress write this thing, the mistake of just putting it all on them and it was sort of overlearning. i think every presidency does this, they overlearn the conventional wisdom of stakes from the previous presidency and in this one the overlearned lesson here, bill clinton didn t work with congress close enough, didn t do these things so they let it happen and let too many odd issues bubble up and sort of overtake some of the bigger issues and then you look at the bipartisanship. i mean the fact is, they had a white house wouldn t even have been worried about this, probably would have had it passed two months ago and harry reid lost and when they lost even the one or two republicans they could have gotten, it set up the situation that they re facing now. as we ride up with the party chairman they re counting on a