with every question and every answer, nationwide insurantaevsg oumpto joivitatos in working to improve financial literacy and remove obstacles to economic empowerment one conversation at a time. nationwide is on your side. >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. [captioning made possible by kcet public television] tavis: for more tonight on the looming deadline on the congressional daedaluses super committee and the impact on the 2010 presidential race, we are being joined from washington by a widely read columnist for "the washington post," ms. recent book is "tears of a clown. dana, good to have you back. >> good to be here, tavis. tavis: i said from the very beginning that i could not see how a committee evenly split between democrats and republicans could do what a larger senate body could do. please tell me that i was wrong about that and that we will get the problem solved in the next few days. >> i really wish i could tell you that, but i do not see that. i think you were prophetic in your forecast. you never know what could happen in the ne