social engineering and later on you backed off the comment and said there was much you could find in mr. ryan's plan to like. >> can can you blame governor romney for saying you have a consistency problem on this issue? >> i'm not in the business of blaming governor romney. i'm in the business of trying to understand what we're doing as a policy. governor romney came up with a great variation on the plan which allowed the maintenance of the current system and paul adopted that and a brave act by weeden. i've enforced it and i think na governor romney deserves some credit to help figure out how to make this thing workable. a nice thing to actually have a bipartisan plan in washington that we can look at in a positive way and hope would help save medicare. >> neil: governor romney, you want to respond to that compliment. >> yeah, thank you. today republicans and democrats came together with senator widen, a congressman