middle class only through the house and senate on saturday. they failed, they couldn t pass it. what was he supposed to do. reporter: this is an interesting argument, you hear it from chuck schumer who is the number two democrat in the senate, is you know what he could have let it expire and build his own theories of tax cuts that would have been branded the obama tax cuts and then on his terms, rather than allowing republicans to set it that we are going to somehow raise taxes on americans by eye hroug these tax cuts to expire therefore hurting the opportunities to get out of this recession. megyn: you re the political analyst, does that ignore the realities in washington? would any president just have allowed the taxes to go up on everyone, the middle class, every sickle person in this country, the payroll systems would have been a complete mess. the irs is talking about how refunds will be delayed given the fact that it lasted to december 8th and it s going to go beyond, never min