you're absolutely right, we won't solve our readiness problems. we can't fix our ships and planes and so forth in three months or six months, but we can get on a good trajectory. in july the house passed a defense bill by the largest bipartisan majority in the last eight years that does exactly that. unfortunately what this three-month, stop-gap measure will do will cut the funding by more than $50 billion that was designed to fix those problems. so you can't just say -- i'll put it this way. we're doing more of the same that got us into trouble and that's what my primary objection is. >> in that case, do you agree with speaker ryan's assessment that the plan that the democrats were pushing is, quote, ridiculous and disgraceful? he said that before the president closed the deal. would you use those adjectives? >> i'd probably use those adjectives and more, but i wouldn't put democrats on it. the truth is there is bipartisan