weeks to respond with any kind of a proposal and much to my disappointment, it wasn t a serious one. we ve got to get serious here. time for the president and the democrats to get serious. the white house has to get serious. that was the sound of congressional republicans increasing outrage at the president and his popular proposal for handling the fiscal cliff. we re joined by nbc s luke russert. luke, help me now because i just want you to answer this question. did anyone in this country vote for the ryan budget on november the 6th? reporter: well, people voted for the ryan budget, that side lost though, martin, as you saw. what s interesting is house republicans are saying they want a more serious offer, but the big story here aside from the republicans rejecting the democrats first offer, is the republicans are really trying to push the 2011 language about the so-called almost agreement between john boehner and president obama. it s that language that had more cuts to enti