all of united states, newspapers, magazines were agast about it. they were just talking about it back and forth. was it healthy? was it unhealthy? are they taking over the roads, hazards to health and traffic? and most importantly everybody was very excited about the idea that women were bicycling. they were worried that women might perspire and that was an unhealthy and unfeminine thing. and a lot of women were wearing bloomers, these sort of blousey trousers to help them bicycle. that was thought to be scandalous. but the lady falcons, they didn't care. they were a group of seven married women who went bicycling. they would finish their ride, rest in the long seats there in the clubhouse. they started having dinner parties there. they became quite fashionable. and they sort of tricked it out with all the victorian fill debris they could cox up -- filigri they could come up with, japanese fans, curtains, cushions it became sort of a fashionable, bohemian thing to do that other people took up the idea, rented these clubhouses from sutro, and many o

he assured the neighbors who were very agast at the idea of these old cable cars being set up that they would be very tasteful and artistic. and essentially, yeah, it was like one room with a little bathroom attached made up of old cable cars. dr. cross thought he was hitting on something. there were hundreds of thousands of people who were homeless, looking for new places to live in the aftermath of the earthquake and fire. so he thought why not use these old cable cars. it only lasted about 10, 12 years. guess it wasn't a big hit. he built a more conventional apartment building after that to replace it. it really was the 1906 earthquake and fire that sort of spelled the end of carville. you have these hundreds of thousands of people looking for new homes, suddenly displaced. now they might listen to these men and say, look, you were renting before. you don't want to live there. i've got this lot out here, sand dune. but it's $100. you can build a house here for cheap. suddenly, more conventional houses start being built around carville. and some of the stores that kind of started thro

the country is rather agast at their tactics.like they were in the minority of the minority bullying the president and turning a housekeeping detail into a crisis. i think standard and poor's lowering the credit rating was a political judgment. i think they pointed fingers at the dysfunction of capitol hill. the dysfunction of capitol hill happened primarily because you had a group of people who didn't want to negotiate and were willing to take the country over the cliff. i think the tea party loses politically. they have outsized leverage within the republican party and in washington. it's really a disconnect, i think. if you held the 2010 elections over again today, i don't think the tea party would come out the big winner. >> interesting. >> but we can't rerun elections unfortunately. >> what about how imper ty pep it for the president to make progress on jobs and how can he go about doing that? >> well, he has a number of proposals on capitol hill that have been languishing. you know, the infrastructure bank, trade deals, ext