chuck alluded to this before -- whether you look at the underlying bill of the supercommittee, come on, at the end of the day, it's a wash. all he did was avert disaster. >> here's what we did. this is not the end of the year, this is a small deal over ten years. we took this small step on debt reduction and set up a trigger mechanism that will take another step on debt reduction as ezra pointed out a few minutes ago without doing anything to support an economy that is barely climbing back to health and doing anything on the revenue side where something should have been done. no, it's not a good deal at all. we shouldn't speak