yesterday passed a similar version a little bit longer extension. >> all right. back to our top story. budget and president selling it. take a listen. >> what my budget does is to put forward some tough choices, some significant spending cuts but at the same time we are going to make key investments like education and science and technology, research and development. >> instead of confronting our debt head on, he has presented us with a budget that spends too much, borrows too much and taxes too much and that costs jobs and opportunities. >> shannon: all right. let's bring the panel. steve hayes, writer for the wreakly standard and charles krauthammer, welcome to you all. didn't start with a lot of common ground. he talked about the fact they are going to have conversations and meet in the middle, not there yet? >> no.