but because they are not moving anything. we are grid locked in a way we ve never been grid locked. that strikes me as a not only fairly potent argument but a true one, yet they don t really make it. they don t seem to an an interest or an attention to fight with congress. jonathan, have they not made that argument because, in effect, the president has been locked into doing some kind of business with congress at every stage, meaning he was trapped in a tax rate negotiation with them last year, then he got trapped into not trapped into, it was his job. he was in a deficit reduction and debt ceiling negotiation with them and so when you re negotiating with them, u you can t be condemning them. they have another one coming up, a few big negotiations coming up. is there a moment he can just say i m going to go out there, i m going to talk about these people the way ezra is saying i