i assume the president will be telling, nds he's going to say to the midwestern people wuk, we have to be responsible about this. entitlement problem that we have got with to force him on this debt ceiling issue. i know it seems like we have seen this movie before, but i think this is going to make a fiscal cliff fight look small because republicans are angry about what happened last time, they're angry at their speaker. they believe he capitulated an the spending cut side, they're not willing to do that again, and many republicans are willing to take this right to default and the president is going to say that's irresponsible. >> our senior congressional correspondent dana bash is here. the republicans say the nice's debt is exploding the deficit spending is exploding and they have got to do something about it right now. >> and just as gloria was saying there are certainly a number of rank and file republicans who are willing to make good on the threat that if the president, if the white house and democrats here do not agree to couple every dollar that we increase the debt limit with

you wuk by a bar and see people watching sports on tv which is alien to me but i see how 30r7b9 thesele, like me at home playing the piano. and lance armstrong, is one powerful personality maybe we can go from this to apply this to more abstract, less visceral issues. there's a lesson to be learned here, i hope. >> something i wanted to say is sports are this working-class past time and sometimes, we're talking about a back stages -- they say sports are a distraction and i think this is exact approximately right. especially polite liberals and the wonk class could learn from sports fans that an intense desire for fairness can be cleansing. no one is looking at barry bonds and saying he's too big to prosecute in this british bank. right? in a sense the dirtiest trick -- >> you're saying retributional impulse you're seeing from fans. >> i'm saying desire for fairness. when you look at the scandals like "too big to fail" it's the dirtiest trick the democrats played on polite liberals by saying that this corruption, this entrenched corruption, is i identified with the well being of everyo