nobody wanted to vote for it but speaker pelosi assured president bush that enough democrats would vote for that with enough republicans and prevent that kind of chaos. what happened was speaker boehner delivered the republican votes. we were all in the democratic cloak room while we watched the stock market. within 24 hours we had enough republican votes to salvage the situation. i hope mitch mcconnell doesn't take us to that point but that is where they're headed if he wants to take us over the cliff, and watch the economy crash, because he is filibustering an increase in the debt ceiling, it will be totally on him and the american people will know it. >> what about democrats just doing it in the reconciliation bill? >> well, in order to put in the reconciliation bill we would have had to include it in the original budget resolution. and we decided for a variety of