committee. wait a second. let s not let s not do, you know, revisionist history and mythological thinking. the budget that was passed out of the house, some of the republicans in the senate didn t want to vote on, it is not just the democrats had some problems with it. you now have members of your party running away from their vote in support of that budget because it is so wildly unpopular and i want to talk about medicare because that s obviously been part of this budget conversation and political reports today that the house republicans are so jittery about the budget, ryan and budget, that john boehner had to do a conference call to calm people s fears. really, you are going to hang your hat on the ryan budget? there s two things i find very interesting. one, the only reason we are talking about the ryan budget is because it actually passed. it was a budget that passed. the president s budget went down 97 to 0 in the stat and i don t think that it did any better in the ho