democrats who are in charge in congress will say quietly and sometimes even publicly is that once they get through the big votes that have been delayed and delayed on the president s agenda, infrastructure, which was bipartisan in the senate, we ll see what happens when it gets a vote in the house, and the social safety net bill, that the ted lasso goldfish scenario, that that will kick in, that people will forget all of the tense moments and the anxiety among democrats right now in washington to get all that passed. but that s a big leap, especially given the fact that there are other things, and if you kind of look back to when you and i were covering congress together during the obamacare fight, yes, they got it done, it was difficult, it was ultimately popular and successful, but what it meant when they passed it in