medianews helps to elevate the extreme voices. we've got the incentive structure all wrong in america. we are elevating the loudest voices in the room. what is happening is politics is now full of just performers. not people who want to solve a problem. speaking of congress. the thing about governors is we still have to do stuff. potholes are not partisan. they are supposed to do stuff, but they are not. and when we elevate performers who have no incentive to accomplish anything -- i still use the traditional right, left framing. it is shorthand for so many things. in my more lucid moments, i get rid of those terms and look at builders and destroyers. there are builders on the right, the left, and middle, and destroyers on the right, left, and middle. but who are the people that are building trying to create something so easy to tear down? now we have a congress full of people that are good at tearing things down but terrible at building anything. judy: is it your sense people are even listening to each other on questions as funda