. >> dhani jones, nice to have you here. you can catch him playing linebacker for the bengals, if they sort out the lockout. >>> i'm dylan ratigan and "hardball with chris matthews" starts right now. >>> performance art. let's play "hardball." >>> good evening. ooich krm i'm chris matthews in san francisco. leading off, cut, cap and balance caper pap hue day in the debate over the economy, first in the next few hours house republicans will vote for something they call cut, cap and balance. this is performance art, of course. the stuff you see on sidewalks on the weekends. they're miming. pretending to be doing something, you know, like bumping into walls that aren't there. the republican plan has no specifics on what to be cut. he calls for a cut to just below 20% of gdp by 2021, ten years from now, and demands a two-thirds vote in both houses to back a balanced budget amendment to the constitution. it has no chance whatsoever of being a bipartisan deal. second, president obama announced this afternoon that the gang of six,