to suggest it was morally equivalent to dennis miller's question about why the president couldn't say islamic jihadism. miller's comment was the event of the moment. barney frank's was reach. here we have a bombing in boston and he is saying this is no tax cut would have prevented. that was a stretch. ideological spasm. and it had nothing to do be the issue at hand. i would remind you the bush tax cut were in place in their entirety through december 31 of this year of last year, and only the top bracket has been raised. that will affect people's tax payment next year, not last year. so, you know, the bush tax cut were enforced when we had to deal with this crisis in boston. the boston police and federal government dealt with it. as to why the president can't bring hymn to say this. i thought about this a lot. i don't have an answer. two possible answers. one is this is all politics. he is sitting there saying i can't say islamic jihadism, i can't say war on terror or