but then we should sit down and trade ideas. lamar alexander and patty murray are already talking about doing that. i'm hopeful they can begin a series of hearings, nobody has said obamacare is perfect. nobody has said our health care system doesn't need fixing. the problem was when they started -- when they tried to pull the rug out from under the existing health care system, so change it, improve it but don't just take a knife and try to destroy it and put nothing in its place. and so we can work together and i said that on the floor last night and a whole number of republicans who are usually more quiet and more conservative came over to me and thanked me and said they want to do it. so on health care but also in the senate as a whole i hope what john mccain did will be