have been met and with each success their insent vised to employ the strategy again. this has become the new normal in washington. what we get are all of these self-created crisises every few months and abnormal insidious means of producing public policy. joining us now is eugene robinson from the washington post. msnbc contributor. good to see you. good to be here. am i being hyper bollic. is this new and distinct, this kind of brand of self imposition of crisis? or is in the way the system always works? it has certainly escalated, chris. look, this government, our political system has always worked best with a tight deadline. things tend not to get done until they have to get done. but, you are right that this is different. there was a famous quote from rahm iman yul when he was chief