didn't have i bill that was introduced in the congress. the republicans did. robert gibbs was asked about this last week and he said, oh, well, the republicans are going to demagogue it so we're not going to bring it up. let's talk when the facts, the issues, the speaker ran out like a cowardless this past week. didn't want a vote because she had 39 democrats who would have voted to extend all of the tax cuts. i think that's evil going up into an election. let's talk about the substance. >> i'm imagining the filibusters. joe, do you want to respond. >> no, one more. >> no, i will give joe a chance to talk. go ahead, joe. >> thank you. first of all, ron wasn't at, as he said, either march. i don't think ron's ever been to a major march so -- >> i have, actually. >> so i didn't interrupt you. you haven't been. you weren't there so you -- and the two of us were. so you're not speaking from a position of knowing exactly what was going on. you're speaking from a position of reports. number two, i'll tell you what's evil. to read in "bloomberg news" that