here we are up against another deadline, march 1. same thing happened with raising tax before the end of the year. the republicans acquiesced to the president. if you re the president, you re thinking, i ll just play that game again and i ll pin the republicans down and they ll have to do this because i ll just tell the american people that the republicans just are against tax hikes, which is not really the whole story. but will it be that the president will actually have to take accountability on this one because it was his idea and will he actually have to be the one that budgets this time to try and save all of these jobs? brian: i just think the republican nesting is not strong. i don t think they go out and do it in a good way say their case that, they proposed two different ways to handle southwester and side line it, that they actually knew this was coming. they were very concerned about defense problem and it wasn t from them. john boehner sat on the side and said, you create