obviously stems from a fundamental problem and you've been flicking at it here is when congress no longer legislates in a meaningful way and certainly when congress ceases to legislate in a bipartisan way, then really all that is left for a minority party is to entertain and is to obstruct and really if you think about the ways in which a party relates to or earns proximity to relevancy and to influence, and there could be a case made that even up until recently at least what the republican party in the obama years was doing. again, not at the fringe e but in the mainstream, its relevancy was earned by knockdown, drag-out fights over health care, over immigration, over taxation, right? at least they were policy fights and what you see now increasingly is that that