paul ryan of wisconsin. geographically we are starting to move north. ideologically i thought it was interesting when we saw kelly ayotte in new hampshire being one of the few people that stood up during the government shutdown saying enough is enough. you people are killing me up here. i was glad to see pat toomey take a couple of courageous stance is well on a lot of different issues. i think it's really good news that the republican party has broken out of my region and is now starting to influence elections in the northeast, the midwest and who knows maybe in the far west, and here is the thing. if we want to be a national party again, we are going to have to do that. in 2008/2009, 2010, there wasn't a single republican representing anybody in new england. hopefully we are turning that around because we need to be an international party again. it's not only good for republicans but good for the tea party set -- thank you very much. thank you guys. >> signing books. [applause] >> if we could be as orderly as possible. [inaudible conversations] >> he "top down" is the name of the book, a novel of the kennedy as