the president. if jonathan is right and all indications are this is the same song we ve seen before to the bitter end this will go and then in the middle of the night you have breaking news on msnbc, probably rachel maddow s hour, that this thing has reached a deal. to quote my executive producer how tired is this that it constantly has to come down to this? as jonathan p pointed out there was aid grand bargain and big deal agreed upon behind the scenes. boehner walked away as a result of pressure from republicans. so essentially in theory there is a working plan that is available that could expedite all of what we see to prevent us from breaking in at 9:00 p.m. to say there s a solution. we re going to break in at 9:00 p.m. and say there s a solution. just forget about that. we want to go christmas shopping for pete s sake. unfortunately, that s the politics, right? a lot is optics and everybody has to look like they re going down to the wire to kind of