you know, it' some horrible ience fiction movie. way i think of chuck grassley is li whack a mole. he's inside the room with max baucus and the other members of the gang of six negotiating, i thin in reasonably goodaith, and then when he pops his head up. first he getswhacked byhe republican leadership that really don't want him to come up with a sensible compromise. they see the opptunity to really go ter the president onhis. so he is getting whacked that way. a then when he pops up his he, he's gting whacked at e town hall meetings. and so while i think that when he says these things about ow we need to cut back d the staff sendshe message thato, he didn't really an to be so native, he is still really interestedn getting to an outcome, it gets ve, very difficult. >> where do you come do on the quote botm line that is now bei thrown out there. is it --t's going to be a democratic ckage. forgethe republicans. forget, all three of the chuck grassleys work wi t democrats and forget it. what do you think about that? >> i think that's w