house, you could argue, hey, they still run -- why isn't the political reality hitting home for republicans? they aren't going to get 100% of what they want here. >> i know, even speaker boehner would go for the big deal and i would love to see medicare and social security and teentitleme programs on table on this, but the president then -- you lose all of the democrats. it's very difficult to pull together -- not all of them but a good deal in the house. how do you pull together a coalition that gets you to 218 in the house? you can't do it with taxes and get republicans to vote for it. and if the democrats will take a hard line in the sand and say no entitlement reform it will be difficult to contemplate how you get to 218 even if you're trying to put democrats in play. this is a very difficult problem to solve. ultimately it will be solved on the spending time. >> is the front-runner in the