when you have congressman madler, and congressman israel, when you have certain democrats calling for the extension of the bush tax cuts, to help the economy, then that is true compromise as well. it just wasn't obama to extend the bush tax cuts. which in his campaign promise when he was running for office, he said he would not. you even have progressives that -- >> the reality is -- >> you have democrats calling for obama to extend it. >> the democrats who could have had the vote on a lot of these policies in mid-summer of '10, didn't want to vote because they wanted to wait until after the midterm elections. we got past the midterm elections in november. 2 million people were about to lose their insurance in terms of their unemployment benefits, and their social security. and they had the president obama between a rock and a hard place. he either compromised with the republicans to save those 2 million people with social security and unemployment, or he's blamed for putting 2 million people out in the name of a whole law of the a commitment -- >> who put obama between a rock and a h