anyone motivating anything aside from the american jobs act, which is at the margins of the problem, doing something about that. it's just remarkable to me how much we aren't talking about the pressing need for agate demand. >> when i was listening to ezra, there could be some, you know, possibilities. i just, some people see the failure as victory. it's something this president did. you know, so are we able to ever find any kind of compromise or any kind of victory or some kind of gift out of this with this current group? can we find any possibility? just because it's obama's supercommittee, it's a victory to some that it failed. anything failing is a victory. >> i think it's a bit larger in the sense that when obama says i have a clear path to possibly winning because the republican nominees are such a mess. not only does he have to win for