interested in everybody else's job, so he is interested in raising top rates, capital gains taxes, subchattert's going to be awfully rough on the economy if he pulls the trigger on that. there are also a series of fights where republicans have more leverage than they do early january. that is the debt ceiling and there the republicans have announced ahead of time the boehner rule remains in place. obama wants a trillion dollars in debt ceiling increase and he's planning on having $8 trillion in higher debt over the next decade, he has to pay for it with spending cuts of equal amounts. the republicans could require tax rates come down as part of a debt ceiling increase. a second tool republicans have and have employed against obama is the continuing resolution. >> yeah. >> because the democrats in the senate have not passed a budget in three or four years, we have a cr, continued resolution if that isn't continued march, april, the government has no money to spend. >> what about tax increases and the impact on the economy? is it really that big of an impact? what about giving in on something j