you have a coupon. >> yeah. >> amazing. one strange question for you about this sort of resurgence about the culture wars. one of the things that i just noticed today about that deal that the republicans and president came up with on friday night is that among these sort of policy riders that are in there, the republicans have cut off d.c.'s ability to spend its own local, d.c. city funds on abortions for poor women, but they didn't insist on killing d.c.'s gay marriage law, which the republicans had also threatened to do at the same time. so the abortion thing they are pressing ahead, but the gay marriage thing they let slide. do you think there's any sort of proposals for the new contours of the culture war there, or do you think it was just an oversight? >> i would guess oversight. if you're saying they are mellowing on the gay issue. >> maybe, maybe. >> i wouldn't count on that. >> maybe. >> yeah, well, it's true. there's a bush, a mccain and a cheney now who are all for gay marriage, you know. what's obama waiting for, alabama? >> yeah. >> excuse me, someone is knocking.