agreed. it's very possible that the -- that any chance the republicans had to at least get back to parity, climb back out of the hole is starting to slip away by all of these retirements and this might be as they say over at the hill where i work, this might be the tip of the iceberg. >> can we put this graphic up. this is the house of representatives and the congress. there are 54 black democrats and there is one black republican and that would be will hurd. so there will soon be none. and that's weird. and the woman who was touted to recruit more women is gone. that's not a good sign. texas had a very close senate race for ted cruz. lots of people are talking about -- it's not certain that he gets back in. obviously it's more likely than no. if texas is starting to see