kelly and conaway, conservative poster, conducted an exit polls on election day this past election. for words, asking people how they felt about the word republican, democrat, conservative, liberal. theost unpopular was the word republican. the most popular was the word conservative. so at our philosophy is well -- and we've been betrayed by th big vernment republicans. we didn't lose these recent elections. it was big government republicans that lost the elections. the number one mistake we made over this year's became conservatis to many times became an appendage of the republican party. and the number one need we have going is we need new leadership. and we just have to have new leadership, mostlyounger leadership. manways we are like the biblical jews who wandered through the generation until the past three seen and we are not been to get to the polical promed land. people have made a conscious decision they do not like republican leaders. whether it is tom delay,enney stert, john banner, roy blunt, mitch mcconnell, you name it. they made a conscious dision they do not like the

i lovhis books i have got, pat conaway, i love that conaway, i love his books but the publishes once every ten years so it is hard to get excited. stephen king is a pretty good but he. we send books back fourth and we are always e-mling and i am i glad to get one of stephen's books. i can't say i always finish them but he does not finish mine either. stock is a great writer. i watched the otherawyers to see, out of cursity what they are writing about. classical authors or dead author, still probly john steinbeck is my favorite. i grew up reading john steinbeck and still read a lot of it, an awful lot of it. but, like last year i went on a mark twain binge. i love mark twain. i read some of the short stories that i have never seen before. i read a great biography o mark twain by ron powers, just rely well done. so it often something like that and go for a full year. i started flying seven or eht years ago, pilot, learned how to fly so iead all of these books aboutviation. so i will chase stuff le that. a few years ago i went on a kick about world war ii and just read a bunch of books

i think it is as applicable today as when general conaway coined the phrase. and as secretary gates talked about we are t-bones force. we do not have all the resources that we would like or necessarily that we need and so the army and the air force are a major resource and we work with secretary donley and pete geren and george casey to make sure that the national guard can fulfill both its mission and the title x rules serving overseas and also representing the governor's of the states, the territories of puerto rico and guam and our district of columbia so that in a nutshell is the constitutional routing of why we have the national guard. the appearance, disagreements are agreements that we have to time throughout history have all been usually round the resource in of the organization and not the value or necessity of the organization. our citizens soldiers and airmen must have the support of their families as we talked about on the panel. we have a unique situation with the other reserve components and that we have to have the support of the employers. most

sit down and our friend from new jersey, rob andrews was chose ton represent the democrats, michael conaway from texas was chose ton represent the republican they sat down together and wrote legislation. mr. akin: actually solved some problems. mr. kline: you'll recall when they finished, they had a good bill, we had legislative hearings, it passed that committee unanimously. mr. akin: ran right through. mr. kline: and it should. that's the way to solve a problem. you cannot take, behind closed door, one party, write a bill, an 1,100 page bill at a cost that, oh, it depends on what given moment you're looking at it, but it's somewhere well over $1 trillion. well over $1 trillion and present it and say, frankly, as the president did, well i'm taupe suggestions. well the best suggestion i would offer to the president to and my colleagues the majority party here is let's set that aside and sit down and see if there's something we can't agree on here. don't do as the lady did, wonderful lady, when i was back in minnesota, who said, congressman, is there some piece of this, that if you took it o