Deficit spending. i don t think the president has necessarily influenced ryan or talked him into a different philosophy on budgeteering. but the fact is you have a president, who from the campaign trail, referred to himself as the king of debt. from the campaign trail said he was not going to touch entitlements, the entitlements that ryan has spent a better part of a decade trying to rework. at the very least, there is some calculation there that at least in that sense, this party is republican leaders are moving closer to their leader of the party in the white house. one argument they do have working in favor of getting votes is the military argument. republicans were part of the deal that imposed the military sequester as michael mentioned on the pentagon. capital spending there as well. now they want to take that off and say, listen to your defense secretary.