ticking towards the end of the year plus the lawmakers are both sides are figuring out what to do with this tax cut. no deal over the weekend although it does sound like we could have some sort of monte hall moment by mid week when they do come together. the republicans want to extend the tax cuts for everybody, democrats want to extend unemployment insurance past two years. i hope i m not going to get that bad door that used to get behind let s make a deal. what was that? or the cow, you know, the nice little milk maid next to him or something like that. they usually give you parting gifts from the home game. we don t have a fox & friends home game yet. we re not sure what s going to happen. let s listen to republican mitch mcconnell from kentucky and dick durbin from illinois as they face off on taxes. i think it s pretty clear now taxes are not going up on anybody in the middle of this recession. we re discussing how long we should maintain current tax rates