sirius xm that "white house chronicle they're listening house" with myself, llewellyn king, linda gasparelloa kenyon philip terzianphilip, and joe davidson. this program can be heard at 9:30 a.m. eastern time on this ideas -- on sirius xm 130 and 110. we're on that the television around the globe on voice of america, and the 300 plus stations we have here in the united states, some commercial and mostly private channels. where do we go from here? what happens in the midterms? what happens if you get republican majorities with some crazies in them or some extremes, but i can say crazy now because karl rove used the word -- was sort of cohesion do you want to have in this new majority? and what are they going to get past that they can get together themselves to pass something? it will be vetoed by the democratic president, and? >> let me give you my cynical survey. the other one? >> not now. only this cynical one. in some ways, christine o'donnell's victory was a blessing in disguise for republicans if it means the republicans gain the senate. if everything goes as it appears to be going and t

i am joined as always by linda gasparello of the show. welcome to the broadcast by bob franken, and this show, and wherever he goes there is some kind of show going on. i am so glad to have for the first time on the show bill press of "the bill press show" on radio. they're nice to have you on the table. back by popular demand, he is helping us out, phil terzian of "the weekly standard," where he is a literary editor. it is a conservative magazine, but it has one of the best book pages in the business. very well written, as you might expect. a book called (it architect of power: roosevelt and eisenhower in the at american century." not only are they worth reading about, but he has managed to write about them in an elegant way. with the use of elegant language. i talked about resetting the future. where do you see america years out? what sort of similar things today -- let me preface this by -- often seminal things are not seen at the time. the introduction of the internet was seminal, for example. do you see our color, structure, changing