party has said, i m with those guys. those guys rock. and they are totally affecting the so-called budget negotiations we re having right now. we re having the wrong conversation in the first place, okay? here s how the conversation went. we re going to give giant tax cuts, over $800 billion in tax cuts, and then we re going to have a conversation how we re going to cut spending. that s a republican conversation. we shouldn t be having that conversation in the first place. but of course, as always, the democrats agreed to it. now the only question that remains is, how much are we going to agree with the republicans? so in that regard, let s look at how, again, the so-called negotiations have gone so far. oh, we ve got a new graphic. fun for everybody. in the beginning, barack obama gives away basically $40 billion from his 2011 budget proposal. you see, the car moved a little bit, or whatever that thing is. it moved.