get taxed more and then nobody ever talks about all the waste. nobody ever talks about all the spending. so it s disingenuous to a certain point of view to say let s tax everyone, but let s not talk about the whole other side of the problem which is waste. steve: right. brian: let s do the play by play leading up to the last 32 days and the give and take is fascinating. one thing charles krauthammer made clear, republicans have more leverage than they re playing and don t seem to be playing the right hand. listen. any republican who buys this is a fool. the republicans have stood for one thing consistently. it s held them together ideal lodgely and electorally. they are the low tax parties. the other guys want to tax to match their wreckless spending. if they give it up now in return for nothing, obama wins and he wins big. now, i understand why they re going to do this. they imagine that republicans