I am sure people are scratching their heads, as I am, wondering, why is the President not sitting down with top congressional leaders and saying, how do we avoid this, as opposed to, I am sad to say, the President does not seem very…

It is not a typical bill. It is very difficult to understand.

Well, I would just say that, sometimes when we are working on trying to solve this fiscal problem, the recognition that a long-term fix is what is needed puts many people in the position that they do not know how you do that and do it now.

I think you raise a good point. We have to be careful about the issue you raised. It is a serious one.

It cries out for reform, even if we did not have a fiscal crisis. It cries out for reform. It is a mess.

the lower the tax, the better in terms of the economy and its capability to produce and grow.

But that is compared to current policy--current policy. If we would compare your plan to current law, it is actually a tax cut.

For it to survive, you have to end up putting revenue into the mix.

The two of us have done this budgeting differently because we have done it bipartisanly from the very beginning.

It has fallen to me since I left the Senate, for almost half of the time that I have been gone, that I have devoted time and energy to trying to come up with ways and means to help this great Nation get out of the terrible dilemma that we…

Without the President we do not get it done ought to be the hue and cry from the Congress and the people of this country.

We are fortunate, and we want to make sure you know that what you get, the work product you get, is bipartisan.