why would we need to do anything about taxes to pay for that? tax cuts are free! down is up, night is day, the jets are going to the super bowl. it's nonsense. but they have believed and argued that nonsense now for years. for all of the mess in washington right now and all of the specifically republican mess in washington right now, i am here to tell you that republicans have apparently given up on that particular part of their nonsensical mess. >> president bush's tax cuts were not paid for. they were anticipated to be grown out of. these are not anticipated to be grown out of. cbo has already said 3.967. in other words, $4 trillion will be added to the debt over ten years with this tax cut unless we do some spending cuts to help offset it. >> hey, that's who congressional republicans put out to talk about the whole tax cut deal that just passed. and his argument is the bush tax cuts were not paid for. and boy were those bush tax cuts expensive. and we need to come up with