get something done by the end of the year. i would not be surprised if they put a band-aid on this and say let s wait until after the new year. let s wait until the new congress gets swong in. a different makeup and get something done then. you re thinking stop-gap, something short term? yes. erin, what about you? i think that s likely. but i think in the new year they are likely to get a big deal. it seems that republicans leading on this, like john boehner, like lindsay graham frankly, they re signaling they want to have a big deal. think in the coming three months or so, we ll probably see something pretty big from them. doug? i agree. i think that they are going to do a bit of a kick the can. but in the interest of getting a deal that people can live with and selling it well, the president is getting outside of washington to go to the american people on this. he needs time to do that well. so i don t think kicking the can down the street is a bad thing, it might help th