i promise. mary jo can call anybody she wants. no one has made me sign a marxist document. everything s going to be okay. but everybody calls you. and gail, the pressure is going to be so immense. on these republicans. and then they back down and they look even worse. this doesn t seem like the fight you want to have. you don t want to have a fight over whether or not we should pay our bills. you want to have the fight over your spending thing. wait till the spending thing comes up. then have a fight about how much money you re going to spend, whether you re going to cut the military, whether you re not. but you don t have a fight over whether or not you re going to pay the debt, whether you re going to pay your bills, whether you re going to ruin your credit rating. it s a stupid, dumb fight. and i think the president wins that one. i don t think republicans really want to cut spending. no. i don t. i ve got to say, if republicans lash themselves to the mast of using