elliott, is that the lame duck session is very dangerous for precisely that reason. right now the electoral effects of major actions are enormous. yes. and i think you re right. he doesn t want to do that. the day after he enters a period in which he is going to have a lame duck majority in both houses, whatever they do, that seems to be a very dangerous period. and to back up what the congresswoman said, you re talking about constitutional questions and constitutional crises. look at how the president has employed the pardon power, going back to sheriff joe, pardoning someone for obstructing the court system. right. he has used it to reward his political allies. and if you re talking about potentially setting up a crisis between the branches of government, this is how frankly, it s one of the tools that the president has unobstruct unobstructed. he can do it. no one can really challenge it. that s the thing that poses the most problems for the government and for the potent