interesting, thou, in our pling, the new poll tha's come out, president obama still remains prett persally popar. his own favorability ratinis 57%. that's a goo, healthy number for a presidt. then y ask thequestion, hw do y feel about his ability to make the right deisions? wellit comes down to 49% and thenwhen we ask, hw do you feel he is doing interms of handling the helthcare ebate, it dropsown to 4% approval. so you c see that e public still likes m, and that's te good ns for the white house becausthey're going to have him selling his thing right after his vacation. but in erms of the details, the public is onfused at a minimum and upset in many nstances. gwen: peter,presumely th folks the white house are lookin at numbers of eir own which reflecthe same kind of erosion. do they have a plan what to dother than ripping up t trops of the democrat national cmittee as he did yesterday? >> that's part of the pay. as a certai poin the white house is cognizant tt the idea of a bipartisan pl is unlikely. in the end, it's going a demoats-onlybill. they have 60 vot in the sena and they have a siable m