year. however, it s all dependent upon who wins the presidency. if mitt romney wins the presidency i ve heard president popular idea is to essentially republican says we will not work on anything to next year, it s our mandate, we have a conservative mandate to move forward to deal with these issues. if president obama wins, there will be some interesting decisions made on the republican side. will republicans say that the loss of mr. romney was, in fact, that we weren t conservative enough or because we were too moderate? if it s the idea that they were too moderate, you would probably see a wanting of to fight the president in all the way through the lame duck. the most interesting thing, though, will have to be with the tax cuts. i heard from a few republicans they say this election is really about the tax cuts and the sense of how they will go forward. if the president wins, folks will take that as a sign that they shouldn t fight tooth and nail about the tax cuts as much as they