It s designed to find common ground between rival branches and rival parties. if they cannot do it over this, over budgets that they have already voted for, then what s the point of even voting for a budget in the first place? if you re just relitigating old agreements and votes, nothing will ever happen. i have to break in, but let me just review, richard, you say that he will not sign it if it got that far, michael, you say he will. he will. i say, let me provide the pen if it gets that far. it won t have any ink in it, michael. thank you both for joining me. the recession that is led to a record income gap between whites and minorities, and john boehner s debt plan would make it even worse. we ll discuss that next. and freezing out the media. where s the bachmann team first roughed up a reporter. now they have a new plan.