ram idea and watch the republicans immediately abandon it. i think he knows if he immediately agrees to a question time thing being ritualized and regularized, then that will make it impossible to happen. so he should drag his feet about it. but there's also the possibility that david axelrod mentioned, which is if you get this thing to be a regular event, you lose the spontaneity, it will become ritualized, it will start to look very similar to standardized senate hearings where members of the cabinet go up there and get grilled by senators in a way that is very stiff and becomes an uninteresting thing to watch. and c-span ratings prove that. >> as even the british parliamentary question time proved, certainly, especially after those disastrous recastings, where they dropped that john major guy. that character was really good. lawrence o'donnell of msnbc and "the huffington post", thank you, lawrence. >> thanks, keith. and still the president's party was way beyond today.รง