the republican fingerprints all over this. quickly to you before we move on, how will this be remembered a year from now? poorly. this has been another embarrassing set piece from an embarrassing congress. it will be positive. no, it will not be. thank you for joining us tonight. we appreciate it. to you here, mike, what will be the perspective on what we have experienced today? will it be forgotten based on the fact we have these big cliffs in front of us? i think there is a lot of scar tissue built up around some of these fiscal fights. i agree wholeheartedly with ezra. it will depend on how this next conference confrontation is resolved. the debt ceiling is the debt ceiling, once you have gone beyond that there is no turning back. that is a very hard deadline, whereas the fiscal cliff, while it would be horrible by most