waiting for the final two weeks? >> i think it would have been better if house republicans pushed cut, cap and balance a month ago. i'm extremely sympathetic to the dislike of giving the federal government more money. no one has a proposal to cut $1.4 trillion right away which is what you have to do. i think it is very important on tuesday that they will now pass a debt ceiling increase with spending cuts and spending caps and a balanced budget amendment added to it. it can no longer be said that the house republicans have their heads in the sand. they have passed the debt ceiling increase and then it is incumbent upon the democrats and president obama to say what version are you for? dense the spending cuts? against the spending caps? against the balanced budget amendment? >> chris: and gets us to the big republican argument about the democrats and especially this president why is that he keeps talking about a big deal