game which is to say the real debate the progressives care about is the bush tax cuts. you have to believe though, if you think that the president is going to allow all the tax cuts to expire, that's their ultimate revenue card, then he's prepared to take the political hit of raising taxes on the middle class and work is folks in america. so that's quite a big "if" there. there's a lot of trust he still think he has with progressives moving into an election maybe because he think everyone's going to get spooked on his side by the choice in an election because this deal right now, the embarrassing piece of it for him is that he.we went out a week a there is no trigger mechanism. the compelling piece is all for republicans to sign on, not for -- democrats to sign on, not for republicans. >> trying to put lipstick on this for some progressive who think it is a pig when he said