about whether the next decade of spending and policy and priority will be one that makes us stronger, whether it will be one that gets us back to competing on our own terms for our own goals. joining us now, eugene robinson. msnbc political analyst and pulitzer prize winning columnist for "washington post." thank you for being here. >> it's good to be here, rachel. >> is there a political opportunity post-bin laden, to shift priorities, to shift our security priority to include economic security and economic strength? >> there should be that opening. and maybe there will be, rachel. it's, you know, it will take a while i think to absorb the death of bin laden and to kind of figure out what page we have turned. i was at the -- in front of the white house the other night on sunday night after the announcement had been made. everybody talked about turning a