think he did show somewhat of a courageous move to put out such a radical agenda and put his name to it because it's going to follow him forever. i mean, he's putting his political career on the line and he knows it and that's why he's not going to run for the senate in wisconsin. that announcement coming out within the last 24 hours. so do you think that they're just going to decide to ride this horse instead of newt? >> well, you know, that was a real question the last few weeks because right after the entire house gop held hands and jumped off that cliff and all of them but a couple voted to basically eliminate medicare as we know it and replace it with this voucher system, there was all this kind of back sliding where, you know, boehner said, well, that's our plan. well, it's ryan's plan. then, no, it's our plan. for the next couple weeks there would be questions about exactly how committed are republicans to this dismantling of medicare? what this last 24 hours has shown us is that they are firmly