please join me in giving a very warm welcome for governor robert ehrlich. [applause] >> thanks, everybody. appreciate that. say you want to get everybody up and tell them to get more members. i am doing it right now. hey your dues. thank you for having me today. i have good news and bad manners. it was advertised that my book will be here today. we will have a book signing afterwards. the bad news is the book is not here. the good news is we've tracked the guy down. the more bad news is we found out he's a democrat. it was ordered about two days ago and it will be here shortly. so i'm going to throw some politics into policy converts. we lawyers love to talk about them when republicans love to talk about the debt relief federal reform and the problems of obamacare entitlement reform and we tend to talk about the substantive issues and we typically listening to conservative radio. we win the think tank battle suddenly a pretty good at winning elections. we are pretty good at finding nonpresidential election cycles because our base tends to show up in large n