basically a statement of what the republican party would do were it given complete control of the government. he's completely comfortable with what paul ryan and the rest of the republican party want to do should that electoral outcome ever, ever be handed to them. now, obviously there's the budget process where you start with that and you amend it a bunch and in theory the, you know, final outcome of that process could yield something that maybe mitch mcconnell wouldn't support. that's not really what he was voting on. he was voting on the platonic version of the paul ryan budget. >> that's right. >> the path to proprosperity. >> the key here, what makes the mcconnell race so fascinating, mitch mcconnell political fig wrur so fascinating, here's a guy who represents a state with a lot of poor folks in it. a lot of people are dependent upon disability, people are dependent upon different programs of the federal government. it's a state in which the medicaid expansion has been massively popular and successful. it's a state that he has gotten political success in by