optimism around washington about the possibility of a grand bargain and supposedly it can happen now, where it couldn t happen a few months ago. i don t see the signs. first of all, there s the paul ryan budget which came out today, and that s not much of a compromise document. in fact, it s a kind of ridiculous sort of escape into science-fiction wherein he expects obama care to be repealed and he does this sort of tax increase with he and other republicans opposed and now he adopts. but it s look, set that aside, the dynamic is the reason he had to produce that budget and make it appear to balance over ten years is that the republican caucus in the house was so restive about having had to agree to a teeny baby tax increase for the healthy in the fiscal cliff negotiations and they were fighting mad and