we're seeing is the republicans swearing off earmarks, defeating the trillion dollar spending spree that the democrats wanted as their parthian shot out of town. >> can you get real deficit reduction now that you've extend the tax cuts, less money coming in, can you get real deficit reduction? maybe it's not your goal without at least saying we have a democratic president and senate maybe you have to agree to some revenue increase as part of the equation. >> no the republicans will not agree to a tax increase. what they will do is take the domestic discretionary spending and some of the military discretionary spending that's been jumped up under obama. we need to take that back down to 2007-2008 levels and that can be done without a super majority in the house or the senate, just with the u.s. house of representatives saying no to higher tax increases. >> if that's the choice what should the democratic president do? >> well, he should resist it and he should make clear what he's for the way truman did in 1948