and, then, you know, this is schoolhouse rock, to get the budget out, to hammer out the differences they appoint conferees who go into conference committee and they hammer out the differences. for a year, the house was mad at the senate for not passing a budget. they didn t pass one because they didn t want to be attached to a document they knew was going to immediately die in the house. they said you know what, you re right. and six months a the democratic senate passed a budget. and john boehner will not allow the house to send conferees. so for six months the demand has been you must appoint conferees. on monday night, john boehner decided to say we re going to appoint conferees to work out the difference on this continuing resolution. they were trying to sound reasonable at the very moment they were unreasonable. that was their procedural fig
votes saying why should we stop? pass the farthest right bill through the house, tram through the house, go to the senate, get amended go into conference committee and they will be starting on the house side with the most extreme conservative position possible. i think what we are seeing is republicans really understand negotiation 101 and the obama administration either doesn t understand negotiation 101 or is actually ideologically with some of the more hard-core conservative policies and ideologies of the tea party that is controlling the house of representatives. let me build on david s point a little bit and give this question to you, ryan. had had is the first time the president has come out in public and said this is where i stand. he didn t say that in the beginning where he like if he had come out and gave a big speech, i m giving away $40 billion in cuts. now the republicans have to come to me it would have been very public, right? then when the republicans didn t come to