dough mess lick i some confidence that these bills are somehow going to get through and it s all going to come together republicans are pretty united in standing up against this. i would say the democrats seem to be in disarray but that would imply they were once in array on this. and that s because they don t have the votes to pass their bill because their bills are not popular. latest gambit include massive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens which would include welfare benefits and obamacare and housing aid and heating aid. and their argument is they can include those immigration measures in what is fundamentally a budget bill because they are is going to spend billions of dollars on illegal aliens. that s not a very popular position with the american people. that s why the democratic caucus up in the congress right now is a hot bed of cold feet on that issue and so many others. bret: but do you think that moderates are going to go for these tax pay-fors that are being struct