joining our conversation now from madison, wisconsin, joni coles, washington correspondent for the nation.magazine we were talking about the behavior of the united states senate, and talked about almost an identify switch between incouragible house and . >> i and i respect what he has to say. what i will tell you is that the budget deal that's come through, and all of the fights that are going on have really been reflections of a big change in general. money has been given to both chambers, in addition we have a 24-7 news cycle. and so little fights that in the past might have been significant now become amplified in a fundraising standpoint. that becomes tough. to me the most disappointing thing in the current moment is that the suggestion that the ultimate goal should be corporation, and it does trouble me that we sometimes measure success or failure by whether these folks aren't fighting with one another rather than stepping back and asking ourselves is the legislation that they're putting forward, are these budget deals and other initiatives sufficient at the moment. i would suggest by and lar