you know, he spoke very fondly of some of the majority leaders and minority leaders that he worked with, jonathan, but the degradation of the process, the partisanship and the polarization. and one of the great contradictions of harry reid is he was very upset about that and blamed republicans for it. but as you know, there are a lot of people, not just republicans who blame harry reid and his public style, whether it was going on the senate floor to question whether mitt romney paid taxes and then later to acknowledge that maybe he didn't have the goods on that. but hey, mitt romney didn't win, did he? that kind of smashmouth political style may have contributed to it. but if aiz will tell you, that is how harry reid was. he was going to get from point a to point b by any means necessary. and when i say by any means