einstein to see what is going on here. >> bret: is it better if democrats in your estimation to drag this thing on through christmas? >> we want to pass a payroll tax cut. there is a simple way to do it. for the house, all we're asking is speaker boehner to put the senate bill on the floor. that is the normal procedure. when you have something that is really important. as a tax cut over $1,000 for the average american middle class family. the senate passes it overwhelmingly. you put it on the house floor. i bet you dollars to doughnuts, if it's put on the house floor, it will pass with not 219 votes, one more than necessary, but with 50 or 60 votes more than necessary a latch number of republicans would -- large number of republicans would vote for it. he is doing it for one of two reasons, either he wants it to fail and can't say so. or he is afraid of the 50 people that do want it to fail