klein on the politics of this. my contention is unless the liberal caucus led by nancy pelosi, a huge majority of democrats who are hard core liberals, unless they see teeth marks in the neck of eric cantor and boehner, unless they see the president has really gone in there and raised taxes on the rich, done something significant, maybe not the 39.6% but something that clearly bothers those people, she's not giving anything from her end. you've got to be tough on the tax front if you're going to get any action really along entitlement people. that's my view. >> i think that that's true, although i think what you're going to have here is a centrist coalition where the republicans in the house are going to drop their tea party supporters, and the democrats may have to drop some of their more extreme -- you know -- >> does this get you 218? does that get you 218? >> of course. boehner could have gotten there if he'd been willing to drop the tea party two years ago. i think that you'll see a small uptick in marginal rates, but you're going to satisfy haggling. this is the return of politics, and by the way, you have been saying there's only one house republican who