deficit because we tax too little, because we spend too much. jeff. hi, haley. you ve been around the block a while. are we going to get something out of washington that is a really substyti ststantive agre just looks real enough to satisfy the public. i don t think you will satisfy the public. the public is very divided, as the election showed. i hear all this mandate mandate talk but the president got less than 51% of the vote. he won because he made mitt romney unacceptable. he didn t run on his record. but the fact of the matter is, nothing that has been said by the democrats stounds me like it will be very satisfactory. patty murray says she doesn t mind going over the fiscal cliff. dick durbin says we can t take up entitlements this year and