and former cheaf of staff the newt gingrich 2012 campaign and ira cat nelson, professor of political science and history at columbia university. and author of fear itself: the new deal from the origin of our time. thank you all for being here. gairlt, i want to start with you. i feel like what is going on here? you have 90% of americans saying they support it. what in the world is happening? remember that. you had some house members saying it s going to die when it comes over here. you had senators saying i m not going to stick my neck out to something dying and i don t want to give obama a victory. i don t want to give him something he wants.