what he has tried to do, and democrats have tried to do, have taken modest steps in these last weeks and months to slow the troubling trends of inequality. paul ryan is a very insidious person. but one thing i think people need to know is he's the darling of the elite, the establishment, in washington, d.c. my colleague ari berman wrote a cover story for "the nation" last week called "how the austerity class rules washington." and we're seeing an austerity class of pundits and politicians and think tanks who have manufactured a crisis in this country of debt and deficits when the real crisis is the jobs crisis. and they treat this guy, congressman, as a serious man. they have defined courage downwards by saying this man is courageous. to what? to gut social security, medicare, and programs that have brought security and dignity to millions of americans? he's on the wrong side of history. >> december 23rd is a big date with this super committee. agreement's got to be made. >> absolutely. >> the democrats have put $1.3 trillion worth of cuts on the table in the next decade. they want a little bit more