the overseas surveillance and everyone knows that they engage in it. the prism program, for example. that s embarrassing when spying comes to light but it s not surprising. i don t think china, for example, wasn t be aware that u.s. government was trying to spy over there just as it s trying to spy over here. nevertheless, it creates a diplomatic incident when it s brought to public light. one of the revelations showed that the u.s. government was collecting logs of every american s phone calls and storing them, billions of communicatio communicatio communications, and we didn t know that. we had some hints that maybe the bush administration was playing around with meta data some years ago but it wasn t clear what had happened to that program. that revelation has come out now so the question of whether the american people will continue to support that program knowing that every time they dial the phone the government s keeping a record of that, whether their
boehner having to play their tea party politics right now? i think they obviously don t want any tax increases in here but it s what do you call a tax increase, too? closing a tax loophole, they call that tax expenditure on capitol hill. if you can find a different name for it, maybe there are revenue aspects to this. i know selling more communicatio communications. also going to be revenue in the final deal. and they might call it something else, but there s going to be fees, those sort of things. there will be se machimantics p. the gang problem on capitol hill. which gang do we need to care about right now? is the gang of six still relevant? they re still meeting. i think mitch mcconnell was right yesterday, though. i think the gang to watch is the biden group or gang or whichever you want to call it. they re the ones that can make a deal that the president s involved in. i think the other gang of six,