and i'm not trying to be obseek wess. brian, i will tell you what that means later on. but you two and the whole team and the objective and honest approach actually creates hope, at least it does for me. so if it's possible to tell us how bad things are and make us feel good about it, i think both of you have done that. and i appreciate the fact that while you have plenty of other things to do, you have taken on this monumental task. i only wish we could put you in every corner of the country for everyone to be able to listen to and particularly those who are strident on one extreme or the other, because the honesty with which this came across i think has to at least affect enough people that americans would have enough courage to do what needs to be done based upon the leadership and the recommendations. senator simpson, if you and dale bumpers and david prior ould go with joe mantion, could go into the senate chamber and spend a few weeks with the folks we've got there now and teach them about honest debate and collegial disagreement, instead of the rhetoric and the h