right now members of congress are telling them to be demoralized. that's a terrible message. but that's a tactic, not a strategy. once they get it, you watch, they'll pivot and say this is the greatest thing that ever happened and they'll be right about that, too. politicians are very good about this. they're in this negotiating. but if they do get this kinds of things they're talking about, this could be huge and transformational. everything that the progressives want. one of the rules that i've learned in politics is you never oppose a bill because of what's not in it. lyndon johnson famously took the voting rights section out of its civil rights bill in 1964. that was the worst thing he could have done but he had to to get it passed. came back the next year and got it passed. the '64 civil rights act, he came back the next year. prifgs progressives will come back the next year and the next year trying to fulfill their agenda. >> what do you think of all of this? mitt romney was talking about,