keep you guys working on thanksgiving, and possibly christmas eve and even beyond that, because that now seems to be a six-week timeframe we are going to have to get all this done. >> if the deadlines would help us do the right thing i'd be all for it. unfortunately my short experience is when we meet deadlines we usually do the wrong thing, we kick the can down the road and raise spending. we have to make tough decisions now and i'd just as soon make them before the election. i think there are things we could agree on with the president. you have to fix social security, it's out of money. you have to fix medicare, it's out of money. and we can't heap new programs on top of programs out of money. that's my main complaint about obamacare. how do you add that on when medicare is already 35 to $40 trillion short. bill: you may disagree with senator mccain on how you get there. >> yeah. bill: but you do agree with him on the charge of m. i i. a.,