going to win. well, we re involved with sort of an elaborate four-way igs d discussion here. we have the republicans in the house proposing draconian, ideologically driven massive cuts. we have the proposal from the president. we re going to be pushing back on the house committee for democrats and we re going to have to be working with the senate. i m convinced that if we are aggressive in terms of tax justice, in terms of being sensible in the reductions and areas like the military, like areas of agriculture reform, and accelerating health care reform, i think there s a path that the american public will agree with. all right, congressman bloombloo bloomenaur. thanks for your time. the initial concessions by president obama before the initial negotiations begin is that a mistake? i think we ve seen time and