now, for the record, only 19 categories of the pew polled are discretionary, others are categories where congressional republicans want to see reduced spending. cuts to entitlement programs, medicare, medicaid, that is what john boehner wanted from the white house in exchange from the tax rest in the grand bargain. that is a top priority. and why if you listen to the debate very closely, if you listen to what john boehner is actually saying you may hear president obama talking a lot about his alternative. but you hear the republicans, you hear john boehner talking a lot about number one, how the sequester was barack obama's idea, they very cleverly called the obama-quester. how they don't mind at all. it is their leverage, they can handle it. no problem. what you don't hear a lot of, is a lot of detail about what is is house republicans would prefer