agreement with the democratic-led senate and the democratic president, barack obama, we are in for trouble. it will be a renegade moment in history. suddenly, we would face the reality of a right wing run amuck, a refusal to participate in national self-government out of some angry need to bring the house down and be seen doing so. there was once a way to do things in american politics. it was easy to understand. you fought over policy, you agreed on a compromise in a reasonable time, you signed a bill together, there were smiles all around and the country liked what it saw. now we have a system where you fight even when you have to keep coming up with reasons, new reasons for the fight, where you recklessly miss deadlines, where you keep on fighting, where you may or may not reach a compromise where there is more anger in the country after than before. we don't calm differences these days, we stoke the anger. well, tonight, i'll be on "the rachel maddow show" to talk about my book, "tip and the gipper," which i imagined often in writing it as a warm-hearted look at a good time in american life, but instead now looms as a real operator's manual on how the government should be run, an