i don t know why it didn t happen. i just don t know why they can t make a deal. they can t they can t do it. they can t get together. you have both sides pulling each other apart. and mike, you know, in this case, this first year, it is a penny on the dollar. it s $42 billion out of $3.553 billion. the bad news is that it s the stupidest way to cut. don t go to discretionary domestic spending. that s the last place you want to cut. that s investments. they still haven t touch eed entitlements, with all of the cuts that we ve seen over the past couple of years. and they now have a chance starting in march for the appropriators to get in there. you almost feel like telling barack obama and john boehner, you guys go to france for a couple of weeks, and let the appropriators that haven t worked in regular order for the past three years, let the appropriators in the senate and the house, republicans and democrats alike, to reorder