kristin o'keefe remembers the life of nineteenth century innovator and reconstructive plastic surgeon thomas motor in dr. motor's marvels. look for these titles in bookstores and watch for authors in the near future on booktv and on booktv.org. >> i have enormous respect for bowls and simpson. they are great guys and the thinking at the time is here are the numerical benchmarks you have to pass any budget plan to stabilize your fiscal situation. i didn't like some parts of what they did and thought it was missing a lot so we put our own together and exceeded those benchmarks. we assumed the president would do the same, if he didn't like simpson-bowles he would put his own plan out meeting these benchmarks to stabilize their fiscal situation and he chose not to do that either. was set up by his executive order and so we really did expect him once we decided not to support it, the house republicans, and go do our thing, we thought he would triangulate like bill clinton did for the sake of 2012 and supporting it. so he jettisoned it, demagogued what we were doing and did not offer a cred