pipeline to the payroll tax extension. there you see 169 yea, 138 nee. that is open still. 252:57 on the clock. the republicans managed to defeat an effort by the democrat to vote instead on the stock act. this is inside baseball but it has to do with the insider trader, trading charges about congress. an act with big bipartisan support to defeat that, that would have replaced this. we are looking at the vote happening now. how important is this? where does it go from here if it passes? where it goes from here is the senate. where there isn t support for paying for payroll tax cut extension with the pipeline. there is not support for linking it in the senate. we have come up against the deadline in the past. i don t think the government will shut down. the congress could pass temporary c.r. again and again
the only thing i see is the iran thing. i hope they get off that illegal trading charges. you should be careful there. why? it s right here. okay. the cbo is protecting a $1 trillion budget deficit for 2012 and that s on top of obama s new housing bailout plan. so is this putting our economy in danger? we ll debate it next. also, don t forget to e-mail us at the five .