not a big deal? >>guest: i would do something like the grand bargain that the two parties almost do and i hope they can revisit that and do it in 2013. to do that, you have to have revenues and you have to have a last spending cuts, and you have to address entitlements and discretionary, and a bunch of things. >>neil: but they abandoned the debt commission. >>guest: not true. not true. >>neil: and republicans are no better. >>guest: i believe, in reality, the republicans were far worse. it did not do everything --. >>neil: but it was the president's commission. >>guest: it was his commission, the republicans voted in the house of representatives unanimously against it preventing it from being able to certify --. >>neil: but don't you think if the president was pushing it saying we will jump off the cliff at the same time, it could be different? >>guest: i don't think so. the president said, the president embraced $3 in cuts and $1 in revenue and the amount