senate because you guys decided that vacations were more important. the president going to hawaii [laughter] than solving the problem for a year. no. brad, brad, brad he had to catch up with michelle, so give me a two month bill, and we ll visit this again after my vacation. no. the republicans wanted to tag everything on to this bill. 160 million americans were getting ready to have their taxes go up january 1, and all the republicans had to get back to their hedge fund, pat today and champagne christmas parties that wall street s paying for. by the way, the most interesting statistic i saw today in the newspaper was the average tax cut under the bush tax cuts for the 1% no, they re the obama tax cuts knockout. is more than the average american makes $55,000 a year. so we know the republicans bread is buttered by the rich 1% hedge fund managers, wall street crowd while president obama and the democrats are fighting for the average 160 million well, your robin hood