i m not dumb. and what i can tell you is that a whole slew of republicans in the house and in the senate just voted for the largest tax cut in american history, and it is. $4 trillion. i got it. fine. and not a single penny of deficit reduction. and they think they re going to get a better deal in two months? i think that s the dummies. maybe it s the republican members of congress are the real dummies out there. maria, you re laughing in agreement. does that suggest you agree? i think what jimmy is saying is right. they re dividing themselves. so you have the wall street gop-ers jumping up and down because of the tax cut. but at the same time when it comes to the debt ceiling reduction, then they re that s where they re afraid. unlike the fiscal cliff we basically put on ourselves, the debt ceiling s actual problem is if we don t pay the debt then you re creating global calamity. that s something wall street will not allow. you re going to see increased
aisle agree on something? do you get a sense from talking to both sides? no. i mean, because the super committee had super powers. if they had proposed something, it would have gone to congress and they would not have allowed any amendments, it would have been a straight up-or-down vote, and, the filibuster rule would have gone out in the senate and, it would have been a simple majority. 51 votes. this was the best opportunity, the deficit reduction, whether you favor entitlement cuts or spending, tax increases or whatever, this was the best chance serious deficit reduction will have at least, through the 2012 election, and it looks like they swung and missed. jamie: real quick, before we leave, you think we ll hear from president if the day passes and they don t have an agreement? i think the president wants to stay as far away from this as possible. he, i think, feels very burned by what happened on the debt ceiling reduction and has stayed literally a half a world away