he s just now he s a mccain wannabe. but only in terms of crankiness. final question, i want to get your thoughts on this, on the strategy here because it occurred to me today that if s.t.a.r.t. does pass and it is now looking like it s going to pass. you have two different models. basically the white house blinked for the republicans saying we re going to hold these other things hostage unless you deal with it. they said the same thing about s.t.a.r.t. and they went ahead anyway and called the bluff, and it looks like they re going to get s.t.a.r.t., and i wonder what that says about how much republicans are bluffing when they do this kind of thing. well, i think on the tax cut deal, the president s argument was that he was playing chicken with a bunch of people who were irresponsible. and who were actually willing at the time to let the tax cuts extensions not continue for middle class, to let unemployment insurance not go on, and that come the next