think we'll see anymore tonight. hopefully over the weekend they cobble something together. >> this is one of the arguments that john boehner is making right now. this is why this needs to pass. if this doesn't pass we're not in the conversation anymore. we are silent. if this passes, then you can imagine some kind of a compromise along the lines of what a.b. is talking about. it's easy to see. i mean actually i don't think -- i think the compromise is rather easy to see. i mean, the democrats care most about the calendar. so they want this through 2012. republicans care most about the spending cuts. so you can see republicans giving -- our getting some on the spending cuts, going to the boehner side of the compromise, and probably democrats getting something on the calendar side, something that pushes through the election time period. i think that's the most likely kind of a compromise. but it doesn't happen unless this passes. i think these are exactly the arguments that john boehner is making to the holdouts among the conservatives. even people who -- you know, there are a lot of reasons not to like the boehner bill. i mean, as we've talked about before, i mean, there are