senator tom coburn who joins us from his home in muskogee oklahoma. senator coburn you voted against extending the payroll tax cut this week. a lot have problems with it. they say it doesn't stimulate the economy. they say you are paying for a one year tax break with ten years of spending cuts and weakens the social security trust fund. question, is the gop prepared to let the payroll tax cut lapse which means a tax increase for middle class workers at the beginning of the year? >> i don't think i can speak for all of the gops. the principles that you would in fact create a tax cut and then say you are going to pay for it over ten years is exactly why we are bankrupt as a nation. and we are. people don't necessarily see that but we are. so whether or not we continue a