president? as the gentleman knows, you don t control the senate when you have 51 or 52 members. that is why when you don t have a cap agreement that you need all 4 leaders to go to the white house. when two won t show up, the best thing to do is don t show up, don t complain i don t have an agreement. neil: they re not talking about tax cuts. they re talking about a temporary spending measure to get through them through the hump that will be a deadline around the 22nd of this month. so close to christmas time, the lights could be going out. not just on your christmas tree. emily is here with us, and judy kurtz. how likely is that? in one word, ain t going to happen. not going to happen though. what is happening here, especially among democrats and republicans, is a bit of protest politics. they re playing the premature blame game mere. the government shut down would be swiss idle for