congress that had not produced an outline of a budget in years. maybe ever. senator senator reid had his hands full this fall where he had his own major reelection battle in nevada, where he beat sharron angle. which meant they could have done over the summer an individual spending bill so you didn't have this big lump sum. the threat of trying to this through at the end, without an people enough time to read it was too much like what they did on health care for people to bear. i think americans were out ed. i if he that the phones were ringing off the hook. e-mails were being burned up because americans said this is exactly what we did not want and we will not tolerate it. now, the question is greta, what happens in february? the continuing resolution that will fund the government only an lasts until february 18th. come january, what sort of posturing are the republicans