andrea mitchell, back to you. the kind of politics we just heard from mitch mcconnell, and we quickly add the kind of politics employed by his adversary in the senate, harry reid, they were the choices after all of the voters of kentucky and nevada respectively. many people have said that right there has given rise to all of this movement we are seeing in american politics. it's example of the old, broken system, where nothing gets agreed to, nothing gets fixed and very little gets through the u.s. senate. >> exactly. the personal relationship between those two men is almost nonexistent. i don't mean to, you know, wax eloquent about the past, but even partisans like bob dole and george mitchell when i was covering the senate, they would meet everyday, they never had a cross word. publicly we would go to the senate every day with pad and pencil and they would tell the reporters, this is the agenda for today, this is what's going to move, this is what's not going to move, this is what we agreed to. the senate moved along. so that's what i think the white house is hoping that they can campaign very actively against the obstructionism of nonaction, not doing their