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Even more misgivings on the senate side among democrats where the bill will go after it passes. jon: that's the big question, isn't it, what happens in the senate. >> well that, is the difficulty here. the democratic leadership was at first skeptical when house republicans came up with this plan last week, then they realized it would be hard, if not odd, to turn down only $4 billion in cuts, which were also proposed by president obama but they haven't moved an inch on bigger cuts over the longer term. there is however a bipartisan group of decifit hawks working on a compromise package, but for...

$61 billion spending cut. hello! what's wrong with this picture? >> and what the decifit hawks think is wrong with this picture, jon, is that no one is looking down the road. they're just looking toward this fall. now, what this group wants to do is cut a little less in the short term, but a lot moreover the next ten years, including some changes in entitlement programs such as medicare. jon. jon: very quickly, jim, if we get this done by friday we have to do it all over again in two weeks? >> i'm afraid so. it's going to be ground hog day with another big fight two weeks from now and that wil...