to do it. if you're talking small ball, i'm assuming revenue is off the table. besides medicare, are there other cuts that democrats could live with in place of the sequester? >> i think when you took everyone through the beginning of what has been happening here and where are sort of the battle scars in the last couple of years, you know, we chuckled when we got to do you remember the supercommittee? and i thought, wow, the super committee is the laugh line now. but i think the bottom line that you really get to now is this issue of sequester and the fact that actually the american economy failed to grow by $24 billion over the last couple of weeks. people are suffering under the sequester. additional cuts are not going to make life easier for americans and i think this is really the issue now before the budget committees and i think that it is up to the democrats if they care about this to keep it front and center because i think, you know, this issue of where the economy is headed and how much can grow, and revenue, i think are the number one things that people really need to think