detention continuing, and warrantless wiretapping continues despite the ridicule given to the bush administration and the things you accomplished. guest: it is amazing continuity and you would not expect the president to have arrived at this point open the tax cut. on gitmo there was a big bipartisan majority in the congress that the administration resisted that does not want gitmo prisoners brought into the continental united states. i was less surprised by that. that is something democrats and republicans alike have a consensus. what the real surprise was for me, and that is the omnibus spending bill, the $1 trillion plus sort of grab bag of funding paying for the government s operations through the end of the fiscal year where 78 days into fiscal year 2011, and we do not have a budget, they tried, they would try to get a budget by doing the omnibus bill stuffed with earmarks and the republicans held firm and a significant number of democrats