senator ted trus saying they want something but they are going to ask for changes to obamacare and not anything to deal with long drivers of the debt and big changes and those are put off until 16 or 17 before anything like that is done and a political reason for both sides to avert their ways and say move along. republicans don t want to be seen as the scold party to use mika s word. they want to move past beyond being the no deficit party. and the president knows that deficit cutting is a loser in the midterm elections so he is happy to take their lead and move along. should we put the term grand bargain out of our head? something we have talks about for years but the conversation ends the same every time. democrats throw their bodies in front of entitlement programs and republicans do the same in front of tax cuts. what changes that dynamic? it s going to have to be a crisis and nearly every time, i sit down with one of these