neil: what does your gut tell you? you hear folks saying that the august 2nd, deadline doesn t look doable. do you agree? i have to say at this point, i don t. it is only monday i know that may sound a little extreme, like last minute. congress does nothing if not on a deadline. i think our predictions still stands. there s going to be some sort of short term extension. they are just battling out dates now. short term extension of the debt ceiling increase. an increase maybe of a trillion, maybe a little more. they are going to duke it out. both seem to agree, there needs to be a committee set up. 12 members bipartisan bicameral that is going to find safeties down the road a lot of people are skeptical, senator toomey is one, whether that is going to be savings that results to comes to true work in the end, i should say.