Welcome back. It is the second hour of the Eric Erikson show. Glad to have you with me.

Phone number 877-9-73-725. I'm sure I'll be doing cooking this weekend if you want to follow me on

Instagram at E.W. Erickson. I occasionally put up the food pictures there. Now, so this has been

one of those unusual weeks where, oh, we've had a lot of stuff, a lot of drawn out stuff, and I hadn't been able to get to all the stuff that I wanted.

And the snack of stuff is just piled up.

And so I can finally today get to the story.

I've wanted to get to the entire week.

So it started with a little bit of spin from Chrysaliza.

Chris Saliza is the fount of conventional wisdom at CNN.

The guy is like on the left and the right, everybody drags Crystaliza.

If the guy says the sky is blue, you better go outside and check to make

sure it really is. One of those sorts of things. But so he's got this piece and he pushed it out

with tweets that Republicans have gotten far more conservative than Democrats have gotten

liberal. And then he has a piece, yes, it's Republicans' fault. Congress is so polarized.

It means that one political party, asymmetric polarization, is getting more partisan than the other,

or that one side is moving closer to its ideological poll than the other.

It's what has happened in Congress over the last five decades, according to a report

from the Pew Research Center, examining roll call votes of lawmakers beginning in the early

70s using a system that ranks members of Congress from most liberal to most conservative.

Pew found that the average Senate Democrat and House Democrat has grown

only marginally more liberal. The average Senate and House Republican, however, has grown

significantly more conservative during the same period. As Pew's drew to Silver wrote

...