sort of, enlarged the powers of the presidency, have grabbed power from a congress that became increasingly gridlocked and dysfunctional and unable to, you know, to do its job, basically. and some people would say that's the demise of the seniority system, which was, you know, had its problems, but did work. some people say, you know, bring back earmarks, that allowed things to happen. even though, you know, it wasn't necessarily the fairest system, but whatever you want to trace it to, congress isn't working, and because congress isn't working, it -- the power sort of devolves to presidents, and so the presidency becomes more important than the founders intended it to be, and probably more important than it should be. >> why don't we step aside here, just watch. there's, for some reason, it feels -- there's a finality of