tax cuts. >> they tried this plan b thing, and they couldn't even get the republican -- >> well, they could get about 200 house republicans, and they needed about 20 house democrats, and the president and the democratic leadership made it clear it was a nonstarter. >> dan is being, again, disingenuous, and he's being -- >> i'm not. >> you are. because the deal, as sam pointed out, in the summer of 2011, the so-called big deal, that included chain cpi and raising the age of medicare. i'm talking about that. i'm talking about that. and the republicans had a chance to get two of the big things they wanted, and they turned their back on it because they couldn't get the votes. >> that's exactly what i was saying. i was saying that there is a faction within the conference -- >> that couldn't get the votes. >> -- that couldn't get the votes. what i'm saying right now is you look at the plan b that speaker boehner was for, you could have get a majority of republicans and some house democrats for it and you could have had a deal. the president made it clear he would have never accepted that deal. >> and he shouldn't have accepted that deal. >> senator reid said he would never take it up. >> you've got to get real