where do they stand? yeah, bret. this ching is still a mess. and i think the democrats are having problems because they are trying to pass legislation built for majorities they don t have. the biggest thing they are dealing with here is they are in control of a 50/50 senate. it s not even a majority but it s a majority because they have the vice president s ty breaking vote. in the house they have a five seat majority. that is nothing. it is not a governing majority. and what they can t get over is that they have centrists and liberals on opposite sides of the page and nobody wants to give and nobody wants to meet in the middle and everybody is dug n positions that they feel very strongly about but they are very passionate and principled about. but until they reach the conclusion that they don t have the margins to play with, and if and until they ever realize that their inability to show the american people they can govern is putting their majorities in