will find an article on bipartisanship written by michael sheerer who joins us this morning from washington. michael, good morning. glad you're with us. >> good morning, drew. >> before i ask you a question, i want you to listen to this. this is the president on three different occasions talking about getting work done. >> inaction is not an option that is acceptable to me and it's certainly not acceptable to the american people, not on energy, not on the economy, not at this critical moment. >> michael, he's talked about bipartisansh bipartisanship, about working together, about invites. and then inaction, we see something completely different. you could have this conversation on both sides. >> sure. >> why isn't this working? why are we talking about a government dpof government? almost exactly four years after we talked about it four years ago, broken government, broken government. >> there is a trend you can start tracking starting probably