had was when they did do the government shutdown. so their feeling is politically, let s just take a step back, do this incremenlly, get this deal done. don t have the another government shutdown, which didn t do them any good. if you ll recall, and move on. now, the next big issue is, of course, the debt ceiling. i don t know what they re going to decide to do on that. that deadline is february. i assume they ll raise the debt ceiling as they do you an the time, maybe painful at some point but probably do that. where does this put paul ryan? because some very conservative republicans are irritated by this deal. they re not going to vote for it. looking ahead to 2016, because his name is out there potentially as a presidential candidate. i think he s decided to be the pragmatist here and telling conservatives that this has no tax increases. so this is good for us. but the original paul ryan that i met and when he was running for the vice presidency was somebody who saw himself as