limits. a phrase which can t help be funny to me. there are no forbidden areas of cooperation. nothing taboo, apparently between the two. the country said in a joint statement, i have to say, i would love your wisdom and experience here. the u.s. keeps saying there is reports that russia has asked explicitly for essentially re-armament from the chinese. and the u.s. has said publicly they think that is the case and they fear the warning against it. it seems to me like that would be very proactive and provocative step by the chinese. and unnecessary! i guess i don t understand the upside for them in something going that far. how realistic do you think that is? you know, beijing to some extent is divided on these questions. i ve spent the better part of 30 or 40 years rolling my head around these questions in one form or another
no doubt about that. i don t think we re talking financial reform. we re talking about larger issues with the government, particularly cap and trade, the one that everyone is afraid of. and people are scared. you should be scared. the economy. and be scared of card check coming back and rising power of the union. don t act like, doesn t think that s going away. neil: ben, is there a sense from when you ve seen gridlock periods before in washington, and adam raises a good point. it isn t always beneficial. what if we have a sustained period where nothing gets done. what if it drags beyond the mid term elections and say that republicans don t take control of the house or senate and make big gains, but they don t. and then what? i don t think it will be so bad. the government goes on and there s an awful lot of stuff that mr. obama s proposed at that probably should not be ratified, especially the arms control treaty with the soviet union and based on a disarmament treaty for