senator, i have to remind you, when we were growing up, davey crockett was on television, and davey crockette alamo, and they were about to get attacked by all these mexican army guys, and his buddy sneaks out of the fort and comes back and says, i went for reinforcements, but i couldn't get any. davey said to him, why did you come back? so why did you come back? you're in the middle of this fight to hold the senate. you had it pretty good outside. you were safe out there. why did you come back? has gott partisan. we've got significant problems with the budget deficit again. we balanced the budget when i was there before because republican and democrats worked together with george herbert walker bush in 1990, with bill clinton, john kasich. when i left, we were paying off debt. i have promised in this campaign to cross party lines and have already done so with social security, with medicare, with additional cuts that i think will put me in a position to work with republicans who have not outsourced their loyalty to this lobbyist grover norquist by pledging not to raise taxes. i think we can