this is a very clear, unkwif cal gauntlet. it's the victory after the victory. there was an electoral mandate that the president won and was won by the democrats in the senate. it was largely unchanged from the summer of 2011. i see this as the president taking a ka calculated gamble unless you break the back of that republican party that took a hard line about revenue going forward, you're going to be in this endless morass in washington. what they're saying is we're going to fight for this, and if that means on january 1 all bets are off, then on january 1 all bets are off. it's like the government shut down between clinton and the '90s and the republicans then. i'm not as convinced by the administration they're not saying this may be very painful and politically disruptive, and the markets may scream. until we change this dynamicdyn we're not changing anything and we'll fight for it. >> is that the political capital argument without the president coming out? as joe biden said, i...