okay, i heard you, and i'm going to work with these opponents, but we never have seen him defeated by a conservative group of members of congress. his party lost, so we have no benchmark and we are not sure what barack obama is going to be like when he delivers the state of the union. >> we have been hearing about this problem forever, and it is so hard to tackle, why? >> well, first of all because you need three politicians who are brave enough really go up against a lot of constituents who don't like it when you start to talk about specifics who don't care about their political future. i can say that i can have a picture of president obama deciding not to run, i want to raise social security to 70, and cut back on medicare and maybe make rich people pay -- it won't flow. here is why it is so politically unpalpable, as per a recent cnn poll, what is more important reducing the deficit or preventing cuts in medicare.