i am reading james k. poltz diary. he was president in the 1940's. i am reading what happened every day. what was said and done in the 20's and 1950's had as much emotion and passion as there is today, it just wasn't on television 24 hours a day. this is a place where big difficult issues are debated. and almost always, in fact, every time the lathe senator pat moynihan used to say, every time we've will a big piece of social legislation it has been bipartisan. this time it hasn't been. people can make their own decisions about why this is the case. i think it is because the president and his party said, we won the election, we'll write the bill, we don't need the republican input. tavis: i am a part of the media, and you may be right that the media doesn't do what it ought to covering these issues. i would ask, is it the media or politicians these days who want to poll test everything, who want to politically calculate everything. it used to be you campaign and then govern. now you guys are campaigning 24-seven. it's all about making decisions that