that's why i have great respect for the senate president steve sweeney and the speaker sheila ole sprerpthey're democrats. we don't agree on a lot of things but we've worked together and made it our business to put the people's business first, put politics second. which is why it is a little bit disturbing to me what they've done with the idea of tax reduction. seems to meep the closer we're getting to a presidential election in 2012, and a guper in a tore election in 2013, the old politics may be creeping back in. that's when it's even more important for the executive to fight to continue to find compromise, not to throw up your hands and give up. and i think all too often executive leadership pipgss across this country executives decided to throw their hands up and say, they're bad. i can't deal with them. they don then don't ask for the job. no one ever told tu was going to be pleasant or easy. the job of an executive is to make sure that the get the job done, you force people into a room and you find a way to get to the compromise. not on every issue. some it will be impossible to fi