they wanted to do everything to get rid of me. certain people and i ll discuss that more next week. what about the timing of this? i think what happened is the president said he s going to have more troops in afghanistan, the base went crazy. this was a bone thrown toward the base to say were looking out for you. the problem for the president as he makes these announcements and put senators in a box. the wall street journal had an editorial saying the congressional republic needs to treat the president like an independent. so you re starting to see this cleavage between republicans and the president. how are we gonna get legislation passed? the congress need some wins before the election. clearly the president is looking at the base in congress is trying to pass things. i don t know where it will end up. it doesn t seem to be us sound legislative strategy. thank you for your time.