happens all bush tax cuts on high earners and everybody else will expire january 1. smart politics or not. >> and this basically gives every republican challenger ability to go out to voters to say, this party has controlled washington two years. they've done nothing to extend the tax cuts that are going to expire and erase your tax autos democrats are presumably smart enough to know that that is what republicans will do. why not have the vote? >> and they're panicking. they feel they'll lose the debate? >> there is a left wing insists tax cuts not be extended and not ritz that are -- can't wait to get home. they think they're going to try to save themselves. every man, woman for himself is the man tra now. >> wow. okay. when we come back, on yauma care and the mid term election was a first pro visions of the health care law kicking in this week. the president once again tries