bluff by reaching out, going to dinners and other concessions with his outreach. i think that it exposed them as the obstructionist and inflexible party that they are in terms of the party leadership. no question about that. and they are really on the spot. they are on the spot on guns, on the spot in immigration and certainly on the spot on the budget. if they reject this as speaker boehner seems to have done and says it s too little, it s not too little. the best sign of the fact that it took the president exercise courageous leadership is the grief he s getting from the left members of the party, including yourself, rev, the president s hanging in there because, look, if he were king, he would have a different way of getting rid of this debt problem. but he s not king and he s got to make concessions to the other side if he wants to get the adequate revenue that we need to make this whole thing work.