insulating your home, tax credits for first-time home buyers. the president says the average tax refund this year, with tax day thursday, april 15th, is $3,000, and that is an all-time high. back to those expiring tax cuts. the administration has said that some of them, the per-child tax credit, what they call the middle-class tax cuts that were passed by president bush, and the republican congress, they will work to extend those. but others including the death tax or some call it the estate tax depending on where you stand, and the mashrginal rate t on the wealthiest americans, that top rate, they won t be moving to extend those tax cuts. that s yet another battle that s shaping up this election year here in washington. mike, i m curious how the communication goes on this. is this a tit for tat kind of thing? does the white house know what the republicans are going to say? do the republicans know what the white house is going to say? you mean on these internet addresses and radio