kind of concession from the democrats and from president obama. they are so desperate for a symbolic victory over president obama that they will settle for an arcane, obscure, esoteric, if you will, qualification that, again, only undermines the very people who they are supposed to be taking care of, and the very people they say they're fighting for, which is the american public. they are fighting for a smaller and smaller subsection of america, and it includes them and their families and their fellows. this is one of the most ridiculous, i think, attempts to try to hold not only american people hostage, but to undermine the economic and fiscal integrity of this nation for a narrow, ideological point, and i think the democrats have to hold steady. i'm glad to see nancy pelosi and harry reid and president obama standing strong. they've got to do that. >> joy, on a day when the president presented the medal of honor to a brave soldier, william swenson, we have reports of troops in the pentagon