the republicans have a different deal which gerry and johnathan alluded this. boehner has very different circumstances. this is what i read in the column this week. he is not really unlike newt gingrich back in 1995. he is not the leader of the revolution that is fueling the republican party. he was the guy who happened to be in the office when the revolution happened. when you think about gingrich he had those revolutionaries behind him. the furthest people on the right were his peoplement nancy pelosi, a good speaker had the left base with him. he does not have the base with him. he's looking at last week $33 billion in cuts that the democrats are now offering. that's a birch more than he boehner and the republican leadership wants more than two months ago and he's not free to make that deal. these a pretty good deal. you put 32 on the table and the other side comes back and says we'll give you 33 you would think that's a pretty good deal. but the tea party and the freshman in the house they do not want that deal and boehner cannot take that deal because the