americans are furious about the gridlock in washington. to your previous question, alex, the important thing i think about this is that the tea party has been an extraordinarily destructive force. if i could just quote one line from the s&p piece. they said if we re going to van upside scenario, it should incorporate $950 billion of new revenues on the assumptions that the 2001, 2003 tax cuts lapse from the administration, that they re advocating. whether you do this or have a compromise, it s something the tea party will not balance it. i agree with joe. on some of the things the president should have gone on earlier, last year, with this, with the expiration of the tax cut so that the revenues came up. i think they should have hit