ur head in that situation. It definitely makes me feel, has anybody had this feeling this week that I'd have moments where I'm just petting my dog and completely relaxed, and then I would think about how bad it is in the Middle East and other places and I'd feel kind of guilty? And I was also feeling like maybe it won't last. I feel like my peace is not going to last. It feels like all of this is coming for us. I just don't know when. That's what it feels like. But we can be smart and maybe push it back.

Well, Vivek Ramaswamy is very outspoken in a good way. I think he's adding lots of good context and comparisons and giving us stuff to think about about Gaza. And he's very opposed to combining the funding package into one big let's go to war package. And I'm opposed to that too on system and process grounds. That's different from being opposed to the funding of each. That's a separate question. I'm against putting them together. We absolutely have to vote on war individually. You know what you don't want to vote on? Oh, how about war but plus the farm package? No, sorry, get the farm package out of there. How about war or war plus climate change? Nope, nope. War has got to be by itself. There's no wiggle room there. And indeed I don't ever want a speaker of the house if such speaker of the house is going to put war packages together or war with anything else. It's got to be war by itself. Some of the other stuff, you know, the other pork and stuff, I can kind of see why maybe there's some advantages and disadvantages of combining them sometimes. But you don't bundle war. Bundling war together is just a big old you to the citizens of the United States. That is disrespectful. That's not even politics. That is just pure disrespectful. And I don't think I've seen anything like this in politics before, where it's not really an opinion or a preference. This is just pure disrespect for the citizens and the voters. That's all. I feel like it's a bad problem and needs to be solved, but my visceral feeling is my God, you have no respect for the citizens whatsoever to even imagine that you would combine these two things just to shove it down our throats. Yeah, unacceptable.

So I'm 100% behind Vivek on the don't put funding into one package. The other thing he says, and again this is a great addition to the debate, one of the things that Vivek is so valuable for, win or lose, is that he broadens and improves the debate wherever he goes. Even if you disagree with him, he has very clear points about it, defends his points, and even extends the argument into places where it hasn't been extended but needs to be. It's so positive.

But one of the things he says is that he wouldn't be in favor of funding unless Israel has a plan for what happens to the Palestinians after the ground offensive. Do you agree with that or not? You say to yourself, well, screw them. It's not Israel's problem. Why should they have a plan? Now remember, the plan doesn't mean Israel will fix everything. It doesn't have to be, but it could be a plan for how Palestinians will survive. The plan could include we're going to build a multi-government coalition of Arab countries to manage and help the Palestinians. Something like that, right? So it doesn't have to be on Israel's dime. If you tell me Israel shouldn't spend a penny to help even the innocent suffering Palestinians, I would say I can see that. In a normal situation you'd say humanity has to win over politics and all that other stuff. But in this specific situation, I think Israel has a right to walk away and just say, you know what, there are a lot of Muslims in the world. If you can't take care of each other, don't ask my religion to do it. Because that's basically what's happening. People are saying, hey, our religion is failing. Can your religion come over here and take care of us? And how about no? And I'm not sure that that's cruel, given that there are many wealthy Arab Islamic countries surrounding the area with a deep interest in the well-being of these people. Let them take all of it. I think that's what I do.

So I like Vivek's addition that there should be a plan, but I would disagree that that plan should be increasing t