following that, a look at upcoming senate and house primary races with several reporters and a political professor. "washington journal" is next. . . . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> it is primary day tuesday in

kentucky, arizona, and organ. "the washington post" headlines is calling it is super tuesday for both parties. we saw a transfer of power in great britain this past week. in the outlooksection of the "the washington post" -- the headline is "britain does it fast, so why can't we?" the number is 202-737-0002 for democrats and 202-737-0001 for republicans, if you are an independent, the number to call is 202-628-0205. he makes these points. on tuesday, prime minister gordon brown went to buckingham palace and told the queen he was resigning.

minutes later, david cameron visited her majesty, accepted the resignation and walked into 10 downing street. 10 downing street. he went on to say -- in terms of moving people into a top jobs, it will never end. that is because by the time the administration finally fills all the most important positions, maybe sometime next year, many of the appointees will be rotating out. in the first year of reagan's administration, filling 255 of 295 top positions. no president did better until president obama last year, filling 272 such positions. the number of senate confirmation positions went from confirmation positions went from 295 to 422 in the obama

administration. are there lessons from the uk when it comes to transitions? something we could see again in 2013 or 2019. here was this scene last week in london with gordon brown, the outgoing prime minister, and david cameron, the new prime minister. >> i have informed the queen's private secretary that it is my intention to tender my resignation. in the event the quicksteps, i will adviser to invite the leader of the -- except as i will advise her to invite the queen to accept. >> before i talk about that new government, let me say something about the one that has just

passed appeared compared with a decade ago, this country is more open at home and more compassionate abroad. that is something we should all be grateful for. on behalf of the country, i would like to pay tribute to the outgoing prime minister for his long record of dedicated public service. host: that was it last week as gordon brown leaves, david cameron comes on board. this morning's "the washington post" -- britain's transition is done. we are still at it. dennis joins us on the independent lines from arlington, virginia. caller: good morning. caller: good morning. it starts almost after a person gets elected. primarily, the big corporations who buy our candidates, especially the senators, there are groups of individuals i will not name who are very powerful in washington and everybody knows who the big ones are. they have the reins of power and

the people don't. we could learn a lot from althe labour party in england, where special interests do not have as much influence over their politicians as they have over hours. it is really obvious, based on a lot of laws passed in congress, just the fact that -- the glass- steagall act overturned -- all these incremental laws that put on the books over time. it is sickening. they are cow-towing to special interests. host: let me come back to some of the examples written in the peace in the "the washington post" this morning. the whole craze must end. under senate rules, any senator can temporarily block on nominee --

one way to speed things up is if the senate or committee reaches a general understanding with what the white house says, unless a nominee's job has something to do with public finance, assistant secretary, tax checks in most cases would be general reviews rather than detailed audits. next, is kevin joining us from upstate new york. good morning. caller: hello. this is my first time ever getting through here. as far as the lessons being learned from the transition in the u.k., i just want to say

that we should all welcome our president, our new president, with an open mind, even if we do not agree he is in power now. we happen to be a nation of such ignorance and stupidity. i hate to say that, but when i watch your shores sometimes -- your show sometimes, i hardly ever hear anyone who addresses the question you asked. everything about what needs to be responded to. in short, let me say that if there is any lessons we can learn from the u.k., which i am not very familiar with their system, but i do know they seem to be a more open-minded people. we can disagree with people, but we do not have to demonize them all the time and be cynical about their intentions. i am afraid there is a lot of that going on in this country. if anything can get done

throughout the rest of this year, it will be a miracle. host: al kamen points otu this are we morning, whtyy so slow -- compared with our cousins across the pond? the headline -- "britain does it fast, so why can't we?" a republican on the line. caller: we have an incredible example in my congressional district. we had a special election this past week, a primary. and it is a runoff between tom grace and another fellow. and whoever wins this, they have to run again july 20.

not only is a very inefficient, but it can be very costly. people that lost, they can run again. i think we need to make fundamental changes, because it is very expensive to have to pay for two, three, four elections in the period of two months to fill a congressional seat. host: how would you fix it? caller: make this election -- do not make them have to run again july 20. only have that election, and if you won that, you go to congress and you do not have to run for reelection until the next term. host: let me turn it back to the advice and consent in the u.s. senate. the british members of parliament can yell at the british prime minister.

opposition senators can hold the president's nominees a hostage in the united states. does the system need to be fixed? caller: i do, steve. i do not know how we can do it. running the debts that we are, we need to do everything we can to save the taxpayers' money. running special elections is very costly. i do not know the answer. i like britain. say you have a year and that is it. you have the primaries and you have one year to run. host: it is less than that. it is only a five week campaign. caller: that is not enough. host: we are already talking about 2012. joe, a pleasure to hear from you. "the white house can not select, peoplend nominate

that fast. the senate simply cannot push that many people through its clearance, hearing and approval process. back to your calls. on the democrats' line, from alabama. are there lessons from the uk? we saw the transfer of power literally in a matter of hours this past week. what do you think? caller: that is very true. there it is a lot of lessons to be learned. first of all, they do not spend millions of dollars to elect people. you see how they debated. i think we, as americans, we need to do something about racism. obama has been collected over one year now. they still question whether he has -- obama has been collected over one year now. they still question whether he

is an american. - obama has been elected over one year now. these republicans were going to paint the white house black. that took us away from the debate. what we need to do to stop this mess. host: marcus, independent line from florida. caller: i think britain could learn from us. i think there system is ridiculously chaotic. you have that show about britain's parliament. host: we aired live on wednesday mornings on c-span-2. caller: we have an orderly transition of power. it is much better in my opinion. \ host: here is a photograph from bangkok. bangkok. the associated press with an

update on that. they plan to impose a curfew and parts of bangkok. red shirt protestors and the army continue to clash. since thursday, at least 25 people have been killed in central bangkok. clifford joins us on the republican line from jacksonville, florida. we are talking about president and transitions. lessons from the uk. are there? caller: i do not believe there is. the american public needs to realize that we fought a resolution to break ourselves from england to start with. from england to start with. i have worked for government for four years. the transition in government is political, yes, but that is our system. we are republic. we are not a pure democracy.

i do not think the american public would want to have a parliamentary system, based on the size of the country we have and we have 50 individual states, in each state has the right to determine how they will elect their representatives to represent the people of their state and congressional districts. host: thank you for the call. one of our twitter comments. you can join a the conversation online. republican senator leaders need to know what is in it before these gop ends these secret holds. again, something kamen writes about. a reporter writes in an "the new york times" -- "like the road gang -- rogue gang in "oliver,"

many of britain oppose the political class found themselves rapidly reviewing the situation when faced by the convoluted and sometimes cartoonish events that installed the countries first coalition government since world war ii last week." now mr. cameron and mr. clegg as a partnership between the parties that seeks to occupy the same center ground. but the early stirrings against them, among followers suggest that they may find themselves -- that they may find themselves -- and old party ties may prove stronger than the party can bear. they held their first joint news conference this week. discussing the first coalition government since the end of world war ii. gary joins us from springdale, arkansas, from that -- on the democrats' line.

caller: good morning. i think it is amazing that a country the size of the u.k. can transfer power the way they do, but yet, the united states -- we have a sitting president that was elected a year ago and he still does not have his cabinet positions because our archaic government has not push them through fast enough. that is all i have to say. that is all i have to say. host: next is boston joining us from greensboro -- the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i do not think that we have that much to learn from the u.k. its seems to me, i watched that show that you have gone on sunday nights, they have a certain amount of decorum and they know when to back off and be polite. they have a good sense of humor. we have way too much -- not that it is a bad thing -- it seems

our politicians are we more extreme. they get a little more personal than the u.k. folks. i read some christopher hitchens, and they mentioned how it is uncouth for the average person in britain to take too seriously. thank you. host: mike freeman has this twitter comment. "not likely that americans, a young country can take advantage from the europeans, a century old culture. -- centuries old culture. arrogance." independent line. caller: good morning. i wanted to put in my two cents.

i do not have the full truth answer for this question. i do feel this way and i do believe this -- i do not have a footproof answer for this question. about 234 years ago, we embarked on a revolution it to separate ourselves from great britain. what concerns me more than anything is i hear a lot of people -- i am not a young man anymore, i hear a lot of people, they seem to enjoy the milk and honey in our country but they do not want to take -- we are not perfect. we have some bad things that go on, but people that want to take the milk and honey and -- or they tend to preach about some other way of doing it, i believe that is wrong. i do not have the answer to the question, but that is all i feel about that. host: a couple of headlines this morning. a preview of tuesday's hearing. a lot of attention on the senate race.

that special election to fill the seat by the late congressman and jack martin. -- jack murtha. will the democrats back him, specter, in the primary on tuesday? we will check-in on those primary states, pennsylvania, kentucky, and arkansas. democratic leaders in that race putting ellsworth in. he will face dan coates, the republican nominee to take back that seat in the u.s. senate. good morning to you, republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i do not think we have much to learn from england. i think the way the transition is a very smooth. at the same time, we have a unique system where we are able

to control who gets into our federal seats, where england and everyone is from the same party, so it is typically tougher. we have that opportunity to vote against that. it is a unique opportunity. host: our guest on c-span's newsmaker program is new hampshire republican senator judd gregg, who will preview the debate that continues this week with votes continuing in the u.s. senate as early as 530 tomorrow. -- 5:30 >. this bill is getting worse rather than better. it will end up undermining our ability as a nation to be competitive internationally and it will probably make us less stable and the regulatory

regime, relative to managing our financial houses. i am concerned about the direction of the bill. but nobody is try to stop it. we're just trying to improve it. yesterday, there were a series of amendments to improve it. i have been a co-sponsor of several of them to improve it. host: you can watch the entire interview today at 10:00 eastern time, 7:00 on the west coast. our focus this morning -- lessons from the u.k., as we saw the presidential transition which continues in this country, and the immediate transfer of power that took place within a matter of hours in great britain this past week. the story is getting a lot of attention in "the new york times" -- a situation in the gulf coast. the headline -- the giant plumes of oil forming. scientists are finding --

the plumes are depleting the oxygen. the oxygen levels could fall so low as to kill of much of the sea life near these plumes. these are photographs courtesy of the u.s. coast guard. are independent wine, from los angeles. good morning. caller: good morning. my question is this -- i know there is the right to advise and consent. how did that come out to be that any senator can put a hold, as opposed to a system where a group of senators would be required to put a hold? host: which is what the senate has the right to under the rules. he says the hold craze must end.

any senator can block a nominee for any reason or no reason at all. joe joins us from virginia, republican line. caller: good morning. we lived in the england, 1969- 1973, they had a limit of six weeks was as long as the money could be spent for television and radio. the government paid for both sides to be debated. they have lots of information. there was no lack of information. the money that could be spent was $10000. . wouldn't it be wonderful if we could just have people being hurt and poor people could run for office? we would not have the lobbyists pushing secret agendas. we do not even know what exactly

we are being brainwashed some time. that is my only comment. we do not have to rediscover the wheel. it is not like we are going to be like england in socialistic ways. i do not want that at all. i think we could learn from other countries when they have a very civilized elections. thank you. host: thank you for your call. our line for democrats, 202-737- 0002. 202-737-0001 for republicans. here is what some of you may be reading. "the new york times" best seller list -- numberone is "the big short," "this time together," by short," "this time together," by carol burnett is number two, "chelsea, chelsea bang bang" is number 3.

tom joins us on the line. caller: my question is about the oil spill down in the gulf. they tried a pinch the line off, or use of controlled explosion to crash the pipe to shut it off. host: i am not an expert. we have been following this situation since april 20. you saw the frustration of the president on friday and the frustration of the people on the gulf coast. caller: are used to live down there and worked on a small shrimp vote. there are a lot of good people down there. a smallked ona shrimp boat. thanks for taking my call. host: pat joins us from dayton, ohio. caller: understanding all that

is going on that we want to get on in the united states with what ever we are going to do, i am trying to get some understanding over why is it such a problem. host: you mean a delay in getting nominees confirmed it? caller: yes. host: it is two different systems. the question is whether or not we can learn from great britain's system. they have a parliamentary system. we will go on to richard joining us next from texas. good morning. caller: good morning. i think we've learned some lessons -- we could learn some lessons from our founding fathers. we have changed a lot of ways that we were originally set up to get our congress. there was a time when you did not have to be rich to run.

you had the senators behold into the state, and governors and legislators that fixed things. you had much, much smaller congressional districts that would not cost as much money to represent. opposed tos 750,000 individuals in a district. if we have left thing as the founders made them, i think things would not be quite with as much money as they currently are today. host: on the issue of holds, another of your sang -- every time a senator places a secret hold, he or she should be exposed. our "newsmakers" program has

judd gregg today. one of the issues getting a lot of attention in the bill. derivatives. he addressed that during the interview. guest: the language in this bill, unfortunately, it will contract the derivatives activities of this nation and undermine stability of the management and oversight of this nation. that is not me speaking. sheila bair said this. the head of the federal reserve staff told us this will be counterproductive to consumers at and the stability of the banking industry. chairman volcker has said that this bill is fundamentally flawed on the issues on how it tries to regulate derivatives. it will do harm to our ability on main street to get credit. we offered an alternative. it was voted down as you walked

around the floor of the senate, and numerous democratic senators would come up and say, we know we have a problem. we cannot address and sel-- unt, after next tuesday, when walesa went in's primary occurs. that is not the way that you should legislate -- after next tuesday when blanche lincoln's primary occurs. host: kevin hall, mcclatchy newspapers national economics correspondent, joins us. thanks for being with us. caller: thanks for having me. host: explain the number of amendments, which is something that senator chris dodd and went on the floor frustrated, saying that there have been more than 60 a minute -- amendments which

is slowing down the final vote. guest: that is happening in the house as well. there are a lot of amendments they are throwing out there to gum it out. there may be 200 more in the queue. there is really only one more that is a serious amendment that has a lot of bipartisan discussion in terms of what people are serious about addressing, versus the lack of nuisanceses n amendments. host: this bill passing the house by a vote of 223-202. no republican support. in the senate, we have been talking about senator rules. senator harry reid it needs at least one republican to support the bill. who on the gop side is with the democrats and the independence on this? guest: i think it will be easier -- a particular one.

you can speculate on several of them. i do think republicans will have a hard time voting down the main package, once they get through these amendments. it is a hard argument to suggest that you are really trying to protect credit on main street when you are clamping down on preventing the overreached on derivatives. senator gregg was liberal on his explanation on how derivatives might hurt the average person. host: so much attention has been focused on the big firms, lehman brothers, morgan stanley, aig, but how would this bill impact smaller banks? guest: it is one of the things to watch, as lawmakers can reinvent -- the fact is, big and small banks alike made the same

bad decisions. there were over an extended peri-- overextended. community banks have a lot of sway in states like georgia where you have 158 counties. so they have managed to get a lot of exceptions. small banks have made bad decisions, too. it is not particular to large banks. there have been a number of exceptions. one of the things that is being fought over is the consumer finance protection bureau. and the degree to which it will have, hand over the small banks. small banks have problems with mortgages just like big banks. they are fighting to be regulated on the state level. not have a change in the status quo. there have been a lot of little areas fighting it out. but small banks have received a

number of exceptions on fees and other things. usually the line is that small banks did not cause the problem. wall street was a major factor, but these guys were not innocent victims, either. host: with votes continuing, will this bill received a final vote by wednesday or thursday? guest: what chris dodd would like -- that is what chris dodd would like. it is anyone's guess. healthcare is a good example of how long it took to get that done. it makes it tougher because of the holds. it also depends on whether or not the leadership has come to an agreement. with things like the oil spill and things like that, it is hard to know. are read -- our read is -- how do you deal with these 200 and

then and still in line? host: kevin hall joins us with a preview of the debate in the senate. thanks for joining us. we are looking at the headlines in the "the washington post" -- "britain does it fast, so why can't we?" brian says "american problems require american solutions. the real question is -- why does the number of political appointments keep growing? caller: i like what that person just said. every time it seems like every generation we are growing and growing. oscar wilde says bureaucracy expands to meet the needs of the expanding bureaucracy.

this is what we are seeing, the continuation towards socialism. it happened under bush, it had been under everybody starting from the progressive movement in the early 1900's with teddy roosevelt, you are seeing this problem. now you are seeing the ridiculous policies of high taxes and more "the government oversight," which says nothing. look at fannie mae and freddie mac? that was a real problem. nobody is talking about that. that cost the housing crisis that brought us down. what the government does with fannie mae and freddie mac, and yet the bill, has nothing to do with it. it is only a political bill -- like everything in washington is political. we have a two-party system.

host: "chicago tribune" front page story. dangers catheter problems. tracking hospital infections. "lessons from exxon valdez, what did we learn?" there is a story in "newsweek," based on a letter sent by the secretary of homeland security and ken salazar saying that they want clarification from british petroleum. they want all the expenses paid in the short and long term damage. you can read more online. ted joins us from mill city, oregon. good morning. caller: if i said modesto,

california, i would be cut off because c-span does not want open phones for even 45 minutes every day. i believe it would be a significant shift to the republican party, because president obama bribe and threatened congress, which i feel is unconstitutional, in order to get his health bill passed. on the internet, it tells that our president plans to have my pursuit implants put into people for medical records and perhaps more. what do think about that? host: who is the source of the chip issue? caller: beg pardon? host: i want to clarify your last point. the president wants to install chips where?

somewhere,stin your body to keep medical records and maybe more. host: and what is your source of that? who told you that? caller: i read it on the internet. host: thanks for you call. you got your opinion in. "the new york times" sunday business section -- is a ben bernanke having fun yet? today in his fifth year as chairman, he faces challenges far different from any of his predecessors. artur oftion's interest rates which affects of the banks -- directly affect the banks' willingness to lend the funds that fuel the economy, ben bernanke has held the benchmark short-term rate at nearly zero since december. he has to figure out not only

when to start raising rates -- weighing high unemployment against the fear of inflation -- but also how to begin shrinking defense balance sheet, which is more than doubled, to $2.30 trillion since the crisis started. are there lessons from great britain when it comes to political transitions? what do you say? caller: i am sick and tired of the republicans a bellyaching about everything that obama tries to do. they lost the election. they need to get that through their head. they had the white house eight years. people decided they did not like that. obama won by more electoral votes than he did. he was not appointed by the supreme court. in britain, the people at least act like gentlemen, about the republicans are sitting on their hands for everything obama wants. they are just like bullies in designer suits. and i am sick of it.

we had one republican senator and one democrat senator. but i hope the republican senator loses because he voted against the health care bill, which would be good for many north carolinian. he voted against this stimulus package which would have been good. he has voted for nothing that would be good for north carolina. host: betsy, thanks for the call. the president is the subject -- he will deliver the commencement address at west point, as he addresses each branch of the military every year. michelle obama giving a commencement address -- caller: you said bp would pay for the damages and such. host: there was a letter sent

yesterday. if you go to newsweek.com, the federal government wants to ensure that bp pays for all the expenses. caller: are we supposed to be so ignorant to believe that bp will not turn around and change -- charges at the gas pump? charges at the gas pump? the public will end up paying for anyway. host: this was the letter directed to do the the chief executive of bp. "this may prove to be one of the most devastating environmental disasters this country has faced. bp is accountable to the american public for the full cleanup and the economic loss caused by this bill. " the letter was authored by ken

salazar and janet napolitano. john joins us from arcada, california. good morning. caller: good morning. i think we can learn some lessons from the u.k. i think we need to take money out of the elections, but i do not see how we can do that with the way the supreme court -- host: citizens united? caller: yes. the spill will be so worse, that it will affect all of the countries eventually. thank you. host: carol from florida. good morning. caller: are you having a good sunday? it is hot down here. i think that is wonderful.

in britain, things not seen to transition better, but it does not seem to get better over there. we have elected a man who is supposed to protect our laws, which he is not doing. for the lady and north carolina, ok, he is the president. when will he start doing his job? thank you. host: one of those nominees going before the senate judiciary committee later this summer is elena kagan. they called on the clinton library to release papers, including email, belonging to kagan during her tenure in the clinton administration. he requested that the clear library expedite the release for the senate to review.

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guest: this is a government that believes that you create prosperity by growing the government. >> judd gregg on federal spending and financial regulations bill, today on c- span's "newsmakers". >> "washington journal" continues. host: are sunday round table with kevin madden and maria cardona. let's begin with a headline in the "the washington post" -- everyone has a different definition of the anger. definition of the anger. but the expressions of displeasure are everywhere. >> that is right. people are angry. people are fearful. there is a lot of banks because of the recession. there are great signs in terms of recovery, but until we see the numbers in terms of job creation, people will continue to be nervous and will focus it on washington.

i think it is anti-incumbent and not anti-democratic. we have seen it all around. the republican leadership has even said that is anti-incumbent because of what happened to bob bennett in utah. we are seeing across the board. what democrats need to do is -- we knew that these midterm elections would be difficult. what happened in 2006 and 2008 in terms of democrats winning more house seats, it meant that there are few republican seats left to lose. so there are a lot of democratic seats that are vulnerable. we know that. we are in a good situation in terms of raising money. we will take the case to the voters, each democrat that will be up. they will talk about what they have done that for their constituents and the last two years, eight years, however many years they have been in office.

we will make sure we keep as many seats as possible. host: kevin madden. guest: i think it is an anti- washington sentiment. people are starting to lose faith in institutions in congress. the biggest problem for congress is that there is this canyon between where the voters are on many issues and the way the voters have reacted, or the public has reacted to the downturn and the way congress has appeared when you go through the economic downturn, most families start to do more with less. they react conservatively. they are looking at a congress and the washington that has reacted liberally. spending policies, proposed tax policies, bigger government. there is a huge disconnect there. the problem is -- i would argue that it is an anti-incumbent, but the problem for democrats is there are more democrats than republicans. they are the ones in charge.

they are the ones, voters are beginning to hold them responsible. i do think the electorate has this interesting instinct of revenge. they are turning out incumbents that were here 20-30 years, that seniority andof clout. it is being held against them. they're almost doing it apologetically. they are saying it, it is time for somebody new. host: the president this past weekend, a fund raiser in buffalo, new york, and then traveled into new york city for a fund-raiser and said this about the upcoming midterm elections and the republican party. >> we have our mops and brooms out. we are cleaning stuff up.

hold the broom better, is what they're saying. don't tell me how to mop. pick up a mop. do some work on behalf of the american people to solve some of these problems. [applause] strategywasn't their from day one. i am not making this up. i am not making this up. this is public record. they have said in interview, we made a political decision. if we did not do anything, we the otherwell, maybe side would take the blame. we did our best to gum up the works, to say no to everything. after they drove the car into the ditch, another what the keys back -- now they want the keys back. [laughter]

no! [applause] drive.n't guest: i find it interesting that when the president starts to talk about the challenges we have in this country, he continues to sag, we have to stop finger-pointing and get things done. then when it is a chance to introduce politics, he goes all the way in starts pointing fingers back at the republicans. the democrats are in charge. they have majorities in both houses. he has to start leading. i think what the republicans did is they decided to present themselves as the alternative, and democrats tried to paint us as the party of no. over this past year-and-a-half, we see in the american public become the electorate of no. they are saying no to spending and no to this left-of-center

overreach that we are seeing. we have actually had some success of the last year because we have realigned ourselves with mainstream america on the issues. an important part of the democrats' coalition, independents, come the republican way. we have said here is how we would do healthcare and cut spending. i disagree with the presidents of finger-pointing, and i think that is why republicans will do better. host: two specific details. the gop has big ideas. the thing i want to ask you

about is the parents' tax cut. parents must -- invest thousands of dollars and parents do not get the tax breaks they need. the second point is a republican of wisconsin who wants to change the entitlement programs, in terms of medicare and medicaid and social security, saying this country cannot afford the central -- scheduled increases in these benefits. guest: let's look at the details. president obama is exactly right in that when he came to washington, he had an agenda of change. that is what he has done since he walked into office. he has tried to do it in a bipartisan manner. to kevin's point of laying blame, you need to do that when you are trying to set the record straight. he came in trying to talk to republicans and convince them to pick up a mop and help them fix

the situation they created over the past eight years. all we got was obstructionism. that was the only thing they were offering the american people. they said from the beginning. the president said it again -- this is their political strategy. jim demint said it, they just want to see president obama fail, because that is how they would see success. the issue in terms of taxes. this is something the democrats need to underscore. it came out in "usa today" where it said the 2009 tax bill was the lowest the american people have had in more than 60 years. the tax cuts he promised, he has delivered on. only 95% of americans have the lowest tax bill they have had

since president truman. that is something democrats need to talk about. the need to talk about the situation that the president inherited when he walked into office. 750,000 jobs were being lost per month when he came into office. we created the biggest job creation in over four years last month. while people are not feeling it yet, and we need to continue to work harder because those numbers are not good enough, we need to continue to remind the american people why we were in this situation. we were not starting from ground zero when the president walked we were trying to bring us back from the brink of the biggest economic disaster since the great depression. guest: and yet the deficit is approaching $13 trillion. i find that amazing with the american public as far as they understand it. it usually takes a long time.

when you see the deficit in polling, it usually ranks pretty low. it is not something that jim and mark but in middle america are sitting around talking about. -- jhiim and martha in middle america are sitting around talking about. talking about. the democrats have proposed more spending. it has filtered back to voters that this is becoming an increasingly big problem. we may be creating some jobs, we are creating 20 many jobs in the government sector and not in the private sector -- too many jobs in the government sector and not in the private sector. washington continues to open up this ticket -- the spickot from the u.s. treasury. they elected a post-partisan and

a centrist. but he has governed very differently. on january 20, and then on february 12, he went down on the a democratic retreat and lambaste a republican. the door to buy partisanship closed very early on in this administration. there was a poisoned atmosphere from the beginning because of the president hyper partisan actions, all sugared over with bipartisan talk. host: let me put another topic on the table. elena kagan. guest: what the white house did was precentor with the type of résume mthat she has -- incredibly qualified and

brilliant. she has a terrific resonate in terms of being the dean of harvard law school, have experience at the white house, which puts her in a unique position. in terms of her understanding how the decisions are made that will impact real people. the fact that she has been incredibly well qualified in incredibly well qualified in terms of history. she was at harvard. she did a lot of changes at harvard. that undescores the fact that she understands the kind of environment that real people have every day. i think the rollout was terrific. a lot of republicans have been very gracious. a lot of them saying -- not say they will vote for her, but 11 of them voted for her when she was up for solicitor general.

that is another important piece of experience she has. host: some of the news of the weekend is that the obama white house is asking the clinton library to release 160,000 pages, documents related to her. when republicans go after her, is a hypocritical? -- for her lack of experience. guest: i think there is a higher standard that you have to meet. the risk is when you have somebody that has already been confirmed by the senate, even though it is not for our judicial appointment, but for solicitor general, you have now created a higher standard for yourself when you're born to try to prove that. to provee going to try that. it is not about her lack of experience. it -- there are some individuals

that have made that point. host: this morning, one reporter said that what is most striking is the extent to which it is about obama. it is no secret that he sees the supreme court's conservative majority as an obstacle to his agenda. surely there are republicans on the senate judiciary committee prepared to challenge the president by standing up for fundamental liberty. . .

jo people are not quite sure that she will match their liberal check marks. clearly, she is a nominee for the democratic situation. there's no question in terms of her beliefs. in terms of the person she will be replacing, another reason

republic cans won't be quick to oppose her is because her opinion won't quhange the profile of the court host: has clout become the kiss of death guest: institution tutions roit now the news media is being questioned. they are not happy with both political parties or the administration. as far away from washington as you can run.

the best cal queue luis you can have. >> you need to demonstrate exactly what you have at home in these two years, congress has addressed them a lot.

this doesn't have the same political guarantee that it used to. in the pennsylvania race, the 12th district, a closely watched race let's go to me lisa on the republican line. good morning. >> caller: i want 0 to say as far as kegan, it doesn't matter to me who her politics are. what matters to me is that she up holds the law. you can have an opinion when you are given a statement about a specific decision that's

made. to say he was completely dumb struck by what was happening is an excuse to me. when 9/11 happened, george bush didn't blame bill clinton for it. he took responsibility and action. when do you think it is proper for a president to take responsibility for their actions. this is getting to the point of

ridiculousness. i'm waiting for barack obama to say the bp oil spill was george bush's fault. guest: i think what barack obama has done -- he has taken responsibility for everything he's done since he walked in to the oval office. it is important to point out that we didn't walk in to ground zero.

it takes a long time to get into the hole. the president takes responsibility for everything he's done from day one. what he has done is tried to put us back on the pafpblg economic grieged making sure we are growing our jobs. last many, we had the biggest job growth. we are not satisfied. clearly main street is not feeling it yet. you mentioned this earlier. more than 2/3 of the jobs created were private sector jobs. >> who belongs on the bench. the elite, no apologize needed.

they are from different parts of new york. she believes this must be about who can interpret the law. we have these standard that's other people hold up to it. melissa's point is one that is incrosingly being shared. forget about all the personal stuff. forget about what law school they went to. is this person going to faithfully up hold the law i

have a feeling she'll get 7-10 republicans supporting her. host: a call from orange county, california. caller: good morning. one of the main problems is the hyper partisanship that has developed as the news media has expanded to the internet as well as obviously fox news. people that watch fox and other news have two totally different senses of reality. it seems that the hot button issues, fox seems to drive real hard as far as wedge issues are

concerned. a lot of miss givings about people who can't speak the length wadge correctly. they have poor personal habits and such. take the fence that they built between america and mexico where they did build a fax. disassemble the thing and rebuild it along the mason nixon line. maybe all those people who do have problems with the english language from getting confused. language from getting confused. host: i should point out what are you wearing. guest: my bracelet says ask for my papers.

i am a lat irve na, i speak spanish and have brown skin. i could get pulled over for not having my license. guest: my parents immigrated here from ireland in 1964. i have an interest in this as well. it becomes less about the color of their skin and more about if the federal government is protecting our poorder. the arizona reaction is one where the state has become so bee leaguered. i won't judge the law. i don't know enough about it to criticize it too much. i will say that the caller makes an interesting point.

a lot of times because the media covers these things. the squeeky wheel will always get the oil. immigration is a very complex issue. it is not going to be solved in a day. even if we agreed on it, we wouldn't agree. the specifics where we start to argue. this bill, the healthcare, the hyper partisanship referred to was not about death panals. that became a distraction. the squeeky wheel will always get the attention. a parking lot full of 100 cars, no one will notice it. no one will notice it. that is the way i think a lot of the media starts to focus.

there are really reasonable debates we can have that don't get the same coverage of the hot topics. responsibly for climate change issues. and the older brother. the two are challenging each other to head up the labor party in great britain. guest: their parents must be having a hard time.

having a hard time. >> nick clegg and cameron both in their early 40's, they almost look alike. that is clearly the biggest challenge. everybody is nervous about that. to kevin's point in terms of folks being disappointed in the two-party system. when we need to focus on is that the two-party system has worked thus far. one of the things that everybody can do is to make sure everybody participates in this system. one of the most interesting

things to me depen as a naturalized citizen. is that less than 50% of the people come out to vote. if you are not voting, then don't complain. it was still very, very and didn't even get to 70 or 75% of voter participation. we think that's when we will start seeing a lot of folks

better understand and accept the two party system. what great britain is going through is quite fascinating really truly my faff rite. on two sides i have one thing republicans do quite well. they stay on message and repeat their message. one thing you saw the president do was repeat the messaging

quite a bit. it gets repetitive. they seem to have a new message. with regards to one of the previous callers, i a degree this you have to point out some of these issues to set the record straight when it comes to the oil spill, it probably b will be george bush's fault.

i think the caller is pointing to an interesting did he lema in that republicans do repeat the talking points they won the message.

but i think it goes to the fact that the democratic party has a much bigger tent. it is a lot more difficult for democrats to say from top down, here are the talking points. here, mr. or miss democrat and you mr. or miss liberal democrat have got to slip.

i wouldn't necesarily agree i wouldn't necesarily agree with the premise of that book 2008 become very large he convinced many folks and even convinced republicans to vote for him. that's how you win in places like indiana moving to colorado

and this is areas that used to hold republican seats the middle was a where a lot of people navigated. they've entertained and tried advance an agenda very left of center. we can bring them all over to our side. they are contracting what is going on. a lot of the races this year with folks like the tea party

movement and making decisions for which are to run. you have a lot of representatives win guest: and democrats are running scared. and they should be as long as they can show

guest: trillions of dollars of deficits is what you will have to explain. spending has not stopped. we are going to cut taxes and increase, we will have a wonderful november. wonderful november. this is an interesting piece ult mountainly winning the years outside of the date none of us around back then. joining us from cleveland.

i want to talk to kevin. i want to give him some includes. the democrats had a total majority for a whole year put in front of the senate and house, cap and trade, until scott brown came into office. they accomplished nothing. the only way was by going to remembering sillwation at 51%. i want you to tell our republicans we are strong. we love you. you better get down to the counstution -- caller: i'm a sales man and a tea partier. host: why are you? guest: i'm so tired of both

sides. host: what do you sell? caller: medical capital equipment. jean makes a good point. it makes sense that she is a salesman. she could probably do a better job of arguing with maria than i can. they haven't adequately paid attention to the tea party.

we came here in 1994 as the party of ideas and reform and didn't live up to it long enough.

that is the stainl for the last estimated 3,000 jobs estimated 3,000 jobs >> maryland has gone through some of the same big issues because of the recession i think what he has done is really tried to look at that deficit. there are times you have to raise taxes. what you want are leaders who are going to give it to you straight they will fix that budget deficit for years to come. all you have to do is cut spending and programs. that's how you can fix budget deficits. what owe mali is going to be

doing and any governor in this position is to talk about with the reality an programs in place to fix in 2009. you have the smallest tax bill americans have seen in over 60 years. they are the lowest they have been in over 50 years. guest: he's got the fundamental

world view. you cannot help the wage earners in this country by smothering or punishing the wage payers what you are doing is suffocating the growth. what happens is that the democrat also go out and derive tea partiers as foaming at the mouth and not understanding how the tax bills are really low. i feel confident we are in a good place, come any election. about going back and talking about the bush administration and blaming the past republican

congresses. when you are constantly looking back and pointing fingers, i think it will hold you accountable they have to do with wearnt they have the alternatives or ideas to move the country forward. before, it was a little known congressman from wisconsin. how we would govern all those folks that could ee merge.

guest: first of all, it's a myth that democrats do not help with businesses. in addition to 2009 being the lowest tax year in depenl. president obama's plan focused on cutting taxes and giving them incentives. that has worked very well in terms of job creation. secondly, we are more than willing to take to the american people, our ideas. we are focused on investments and clear energy and healthcare. yes, making sure that we continue on the right path of this economy, which was a mess when we came into office.

and saying this has to talk sound like nails on a chalk board i have some issues with kevin madden. he's trying to sa trying to say are trying to paint the republicans as a party of no. republicans as a party of no. they are the party of no. they have said no to absolutely everything that president obama has tried to do. if he would take into consider ation. president obama had to come in and clean up all this mess

coming out to say that rush limbaugh is not the head of the republican party and that they do not go along with all the hate that he spews when we try to put all republicans in a hateful place and against what everybody is for. that's where most republicans

are right now. speaking about being a party of no. i disagree that when they try to paint us as a party of nain they said no to a trillion dollar healthcare bill and bail outs. they said no to spending, no to growth of government. we all agree that the party and elector rat is angry. they are yelling yes and saying no. what i would argue is without the party of no is that we would align ognselves host: jackie, stay on the line, if you would. piths, i want to show you from about a week ago from utah. mitt romney supporting bob bennett who lost in his bid to get the republican nomination.

we'll just show the video. rebuilding requires going out and helping the parties. sominaody that he he worked ver hard. is that the version. if you look at 2012, it is going to be a contest of individuals whether or not that

means this is a person that leads this country. 2012 is going to be about big things i think those are the big issues. i really tend to be bored with the whole endorsement game. one of these things where we keep score inside the beltway. the biggest challenge it is becoming a smaller party. the conservatives are making sgne that the republican party is making sure that they talk to a smaller elector rat.

you look at arizona and the fact that the rpewublicans are zero senators on boferede. it is the reason why we have ari rana and other states. if we could get half of the senators on board, we could get this by next we fr. we have mccain and grant. they are not going to go to the republican party any time in the near future. they are the biggest gronal factor. if rpewublicans don't find a wa to bring them in to the party, they are done. in late august, we are talking about the republican primary on not goesdacto our last cault from pittsburgh, good morning.

people in ari rana are scared. when we need is a complete audit of every government agency we dourt have the monect agency we dourt have the monect this doesn't make sense if we get millions of illegals allowed to stay here. i lived in washington state for 14 years. i've been upset since 2000. i'm glad republicans are the

psh rty of now. host: let me ask you a question. primary day on tuesday. a lot of attention on the district. also the senate race. what is g atng to happen? guest: i didn't like inspector as a republican or a democrat. and i hope these pmiple up there, the democrats in pennsylvania are not the democrats in califor froa. if you talk to them, my congressman is a democrai di ihingte called him several time about nancy pelosi. they don't like her. i don't want this state to become like california. these pmiple down there. if they keep voting these same people in all the time, they are in deep trouble in california the healthcare bill,

when you see what they are d atng. you can't make sense talk about jerry handering. >> that's one of the problems across the board when you are talking about the etorremes of the parties or the middle because of so many years of redistricting, you have these districts more engineers toward

electing the extreme parties that's one of the reasons why the middle doesn't seem to be having its way in terms of the healthcare bill, you have -- no one is gooding to be taking away medicare benefits. we are g atng to make sure ther is no fraud you will be getting 30 million americans who don't have healthcare to be able to have healthcare you have children who can now not be denied coverage because a preexisting condition. they will look at the democratic party. nancy pelosi will go down in

history as one of the greatest speakers ever because she was able to get healthcare done. american people understand that this is something that needed to get done. >> i think jackie's point is that government has become too eyig. we spend more and more tax dollars sent to washington from pittesdgngh and elsewhere aroun the country so it can get even bigger that is a real big worrcto gal lop just came out with a poll the other day. poll the other day. six of the seven top issues at

a time when washington continues to spend money as if it is growing on trees. that is really driving frustration out there. this has become a canyon. >> maria and kevin, thank you >> maria and kevin, thank you for being here g.> well continue the conferenc on the upcoming primary. we contip je in just a moment and check in with some reporters closely covering races in pennst.sm froa, ari ra and kentucky to name a few we'll take a look at some evenmip from around the country.

>> will you vote for the ia cumbant? let's begin with a look at what's happe frong in pennsylvania and some of the latest polling ny tobers a long

tand ge republican switching parties last year. let's look at the ny tobers. inspector with 40%. another survey showing inspector at 44% and sestak at 4tc and another sgnvey here. trying to make sense of those p jmbers, we are j atned by tom fitzgerald. how did this race become so tight? guest: there was always a fairly high undecided and inspector's suppo sp seemed snot gock in the midnd s0's som when his option become known.

there was one peliller add abou the party switch that reminded mem people. it had inspector being endorsed by george w. bush in 2004 and next to sarah palin. there was clips of inspector saying he had switched parties so he could get reelected host: we have that ad and want to show it to our audience. the gop passed inspector. here is the ad you referred to a moment ago. y i'm joe sestak the democrai d i authorize this message. >> for 45 years, aryien specter

has been a rpewrepubliclican politician. but now -- my change in party will enable to be elected. he switched parties to save one job. job. his, not yours. >> how often has that ad been running? g.> enoug bethat aing toone who watches broadcast television is assured of seeing that a n 12 orot 3 times now that the campaign is going to a closing spot and transitio frong away from that one to another one that has rating of various other democrati dgroups they

are kind of comparing apples and oranges. he's been a very loyal vote he's always done well against democrats they have aexays crossed over to suppo sp. he was known as a moderate re c1 eyeen trying to beat him for 30

years. there's a lot they hold an'tins him. >> this latest add features barack obama who has campaigned for him and attended a number of fundraisers but not with him the weekend before the election. why is that? he went for the ging pernor in jersey seeking election last fall. he went out for the democrat candidate in v. tr so froa and lost that governorship. that governorship. the same as scof democrat in massachusetts when obama went in the last weekend. i think they want to protect

his press teeg. obama probably would have been a big list to inspector his strength in the city he has a strong lead among african american voters. presumably, he could have juiced up tgnn oui di newspapers a degree. >> i want to say a few things about aryien specter. he cast the deciding vote in favor of the recovery act et let's you pelnow he's g atng to ãat ig4t for you.

>> we have this from caroline saying i'm seeing the ad at least a dozen times. it makes me mad when i see it. sestak has his opel bridge to nowhere. >> it will be a fairly straight up i had logical campaign so

maing to republicans will kick around. he'll be out of touue wit bewh you say about washington. too much spending. he's sort of said things like the stimulus was too small it would sound worse on the noopwh considering the moopri the mood everywhere in the country is showing up in pennst.sm froa. the concern and weariness about all the changes in washington espep jmalmake s the deficit sp and the accumulated debt. people are quite worried about it. >> what's the move on this sunday? y inside that campaign, they are nervous. they figure if people work at

norsecter's record and when he delivered and the question of why do you peleep a veteran, th will be fine. if turn out is doe sent. eyut if people p7 ple wake up o not goesday with that feeling, they could go down they will be identified. y the question we are asking is will you vote for the ia couple bani di ybe in the upcoming midterm election. ogn phone lines are open. you can go on line.

emma says, y lizz is j at frong us. good morning. caller: i wanted to callerlier to say to marissa in ne6 c13 york that yes, president bush did blame president bill clinton. to thees uestionst yes, i am going to support my incumbent.

i appon wud his d for being abl stand up there and manage that. i think we need to change leadershers b with pelosi and reed. no one is talking about president ryieama's failgne to choose an african american for the supreme cou sp. host: fred j at frong us on the indpend inter line. caller: good morninhea thank yoer for taking my call. host: where is your town? caller: a little topel in south

western pennst.sm fro6 c13 what we are seeing here is not democrat or rpewrepubliclican o compa spment alliesed with so-called african americans or eahatever variety of eth froc background. people are waking up to realize we are all americans f. trst. this belongs to both our democrats and republicans. hosnst thato b you for the cal scott is joining us. good morning.

caller: just a note about the healthcare. i haven't heard anybody compare this. i've done heavy collision repair work for 30 years. basically, you have hand the control over to the insurance company right now. eae are g atng to srepublicsidi people who can't afford coverage. p god, what a dih eahat i have seen in the body shop, talk to a doctor about shop, talk to a doctor about thai di ri

>> also supreme court. >> we'll include former republican house speaker newt

gin grish and former first lady laura bush. bob sheafer with senate intelligent committee chair and senator republican whip john kyle. air also member of the senate o judiciary committee. and then bob bennett. or len speaker and pennsylvania congressman. joe zestik. the five talk shows will begin. 90 point 1 profit margins in washington. nation wide on xm. channel 132 and streaming hive on the web at c-span.org and follow us on facebook and on twitter. host: other political news this morning from "washington post". the democratic nominee for the u.s. senate in independence diaw

in the will challenge dan coats. democratic leaders choosing else worth to proceed senator buy one day from the file of the primary. it's be those two this the upcoming general election there. john is joining us from alaska as we talk about the midterm elections and whether or not you'll vote for the incumbent. >> this is johnny. >> good moral together you. >> but, no. i'm both the republican all the way. i mean, i'm just tire to have had democrats and all that. the - it's just like their insurance stuff it's not working one bit. because right now, i'm in the hospital and i should have been in here monday. they sent me home and now i've got two hospital bills i got to take care of.

so - i'm voting with republican all the way. host: thanks for the call. ken from orlando, florida. democrats line. >> bs. listen. 22 years in the military. one thing - one of the principals were in life savings debts. number one, stop the bleeding. two, clear the passage. three protect the wound and treat for shock. this country was headed for ds. it was in a downswing. this incumbent democratic party, has done all it can. all it can to keep this country from bleeding to death. it's done a fabulous job. a fabulous job in doing that. and - and now we want to kick it to the curb. no one knew what to do until this man, these people were

elected. we were in free fall. we didn't know what to do. they're all quiet. they didn't understand what to do or what steps to take. here, this man came in and started started this country back to it's right full place of pride and prestige with character, calmness and candor we haven't seen. this - yes, i'm going to vote for the people in this administration because their work together help this country get back on it's feet and i appreciate it. and until we, as a country learn to appreciate what these people have done, for not only families but businesses. i'm a small business owner. thank you. >> what's your business? guest: i have a day spa in orlando and we - i mean we've

been in dire straights here for a while. people just not getting massages or getting their hair done and that kind of thing and now, it is turned. people - the confidence in the public sector is returning. people are getting jobs. they're now returning back to the businesses and my practice is stabilizing. host: another comment from marry says she's not a tea party u but will vote for human majority of democrats. doesn't want to hear no in congress again if the congress fails they're out in 2012. andrew is the associated press capital correspondent from will little rock. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. host: blank lincoln expected to win renomination but faced a

challenge from the lieutenant governor in ariz arkansas. still up in points. tell us about the why the lieutenant governor decided to jump in this race. guest: former clinton administration server. was in social security administration and basically he gotten into the race after months of lincoln facing criticism from both sides of the aisle. republicans and from some lib calls. lincoln had anglered liberal groups such as move on dot org and labor issues on a number of issues especially on health care. her very public opposition to a public option as part of the health care overhaul. plus, her opposition to the employee free choice act that has been a priority for organized labor.

really motivated a lot of groups that in the past had supported her. the arkansas, cfo supported lincoln's re-election bid. they said after he apposing card shack they soured on her. hall fair was able to take advantage of the situation. he entered race in march. right at the beginning of the filing period and was really embraceed by a lot of the groups that had grown frustrated with lincoln. served some employees international union that embraced him with their support and money. has really made this race unlike any arkansas has seen. >> primary is tuesday but the key is getting majority that could lean to run off. exmain the factors involved in

tuesdays vote? guest guess even all the attention has been on those two, there's a third candy day. morrison that doesn't have that much money. doesn't have a chance to win the nomination but he really threatened to take away enough votes to causes a stir. a run off. most of the poles that are out right now show lincoln leading halter but still below the 50% to win the nomination out right. halter i traveled around south arkansas this week and had asked him about that and he seemed to indicate that - going to run off would show weakness for lincoln. incumbent senator getting below a 50% vote is a danger for her. so i think halters campaign would see a run off as not quite a victory but pretty close. >> what's a registered voters in - what do you think the turn-out will be on tuesday?

guest: there's 1.6 million registered voters the state secretary expected 30-35 percent of the registered voters which if that holds up that will be the highest turn-out since 1994. from what we've seen so far it's a state that allows early voting and we've had that for the last two-year. it's been very high so far. more than 95,000 people have voted early or cast absentee ballets higher than the 2008 primary as and the 2006 in the last non-presidentle primary election. host: was the decision to challenge lincoln a surprise? had there been discussions or water cooler talk about that earlier this year? guest: there had been speculation about it.

when he had w been asked about it, he had been coy about the plan. one thing that added some uncertainty. arkansas is in an uncertain year. three of the four congressman from arkansas are not seeking re-elections. there's some speculation that halter would run for senate or run for congressional fete in central arkansas. but there had been plenty of signs and a lot of groups like i mentioned the labor unions had been talking him up as can can didate. there's been some uncertainty on which path he would choose. >> as somebody who's now talking about her political clout in washington is that a help or hindrance among candidates? >> it's a mixed bag. i traveled with her yesterday in arkansas and she pointed to her experience and stature in washington especially as president of the senator

agriculture committee. one of the draw backs is she's obviously running in a year where the catch phrase is washington is broken. so, bringing up her experience in washington is something halter is able to take advantage of and halter has been running back as an agent of change and point together lincoln as status quo in washington. in some areas, it does seem to help her. i talked with a cattle rancher yesterday that said, he was sporting lincoln primarily of farming issues and role heading up the agriculture committee. he didn't want to miss the opportunity to have someone in that position in washington. there's some benefit but it flies in the face of kind of the antiincumbent and establishment move we're seeing them take advantage of wh right now. host: let me share this with

you. the "washington post" article, they quote peter hart saying anyone searching for meaning from tuesday races need only to look at the grievances building for months and then he says, how many times to we need to tell the same story which is voters are looking for something not in washington right now. guest: i think arkansas will be a good test for that in both primaries. lincoln is two term in competitive bent seeking re-election. on the republican side, the front runer for the republican senate nomination is an incumbent. john boas man. he is a front runner the polls and he still, most of the polls show him slightly below the majority needed to win the no, ma'am nation out right. this election could be a test of whether or not there is this really deep seeded antiincumbent washington move on both sides. boas man and lincoln have both

been facing pretty similar criticism. boas man is krit sided by the 7 other republicans running for the gop nomination who are point together him as part of the broken system in washington. some of that criticism is similar to lincoln and her issues she faces in her primary. host: andrew demillo is based in little rock bureau capitol correspondent. thanks for being with us here on "washington journal" the conversation continues on-line and on our twitter paper at twitter.com/cspanwj. gop and the us against them. there's a g game and it's all o you. ivy from georgia? >> good morning. well your asking a great question about incumbency and i really appreciate you givingous

chance to talk at that. in my particular congressional district, because of the way everything is organized my district, if you don't vote in the republican primary you don't vote who will present you next. host: okay. caller: but as an independent i have to declare to vote in that particular election or else i don't have a voice. so i do struggle with how to do that because i do feel like i need to be an independent and choose from the different issues and yet, because of the way incumbency works and party structure works we have to vote within the primary in order to know who will be be elected official for our particular district. i'll vote and i won't be supporting the incumbent. host: there's a quote with regard to the 12th district race between tim burns and mark chris

acht long-time aid to the late congressman mark burden of proof that presented the district for years. in the body of the story. they et quoted some boyd a lifetime democrat. i'm for tim burns the same reason i was with barack obama. i want change. whether or not mr. burns pulls off a victory in what polls suggest as a competitive race. they embody the nightmare nationally that each committed democrats will turn on their own party. new orleans? good morning. caller: we talking about pennsylvania and the incumbent there. what i really, it seems like all the polls are just dealing with white people. doesn't seem like it comes the mack votes. are they - why aren't they included?

host: i would disagree with you. caller: pardon me? host: the poling is a reflection of diverse opinions and ethnicity and gender. caller: listen. there are other - that black republicans like smith in arkansas and when you go out to arizona, but they don't get any type of attention. and they're part of a party and part of the united states. host: okay. thanks for the call. paul is joining us from california. clover dale, california. good morning. caller: good morning. to you too. say, i suppose overtime, especially in the last - few elections that i've experienced it's not so much as an eye for incumbency that to lease particular politicians name. you know i'm starting to find that the eye is more effectively stood when you look someone's character when they say i will

do this, i promise to do that compared to the ones like barack obama out there who say, we can do this, we must do this. and - um... it's a character thing. and i think that generally, as things go, when one person or a few people started think like the way i look at it now. maybe it'll catch on. we can have character. caller: i wanted to say the caller earlier about four calls back on the democratic side in congratulateing the administration. he seemed a little nervous in what he was saying but i've kept a full eye on what's doing on and i agree, full hearted all the way through. host: who's your next governor? caller: it's not going to be the, i will and i can. know what i'm saying? that's the way it is. i haven't opened up my election

ballot information yet. host: we'll follow that in california. james the writing is on the wall. to even new york time cans see it. ne si from the maryland suburb. temple hills outside of washington. caller: listen. three things. incumbents we have out here. card energy. donna edwards. hoiier. we have o'malley. absolutely a ds for black people. i hope they're paying attention. very, very all of them give away the kitchen sink. run out of all our millionaires and we're going broke. black people have a habit of voting down party line and have been in the wilderness for like 40 years. most don't know martin luther king was a republican. they don't read. they're like sheeples. i'm ready for a black female now

on the court. we've never had it. i know we have had thorough good marshall and clarence thompson but it's time to put a different type of strong black woman into the supreme court. person that will follow the constitution and will uphold the law. illegal immigration. we'll talk about how it does impact black people. i'm sick and tired of refer the civil rights movement comparing that to the struggle of thes latino community. i support all my brothers and sisters that did it the right way. i'm not going to vote for anything compromising my standing in america. black people and white people work together. it's our country and their country but we have to stick together and do what needs to be done. host: weekly senate writing about the maryland governor's race and the rematch between bobber lick and former baltimore

mayor and incumbent democrat. o'malley. the associated press. white house is asking the clinton lie prayer to release the papers related to elana cagen rather sooner than later. more than 160 thousand pages of paper. all of this as the senate judiciary committee begins to evaluate the liam neeson and the hearing that will take this summer. live on c-span as those hearings get under way probably in early july. tom from rolling meadows illinois. good morning to you. caller: good morning. both the wife and i are registered republicans and have intentions of going for this next election. looking for term limits for all of our congressman and

presentives. host: thanks for the call. weekly standard takes a look at a cash for doctors. their case for real health care reform. this comment from our twitter page. it has caught on. the tea party says yes, we can and it's working. goatee party. cookie from indiana. good morning. >> good morning. steve. i just wanted to tell you. i love c-span. before c-span i thought that i was the only one with certain opinions but i see there's lots of people just like me out there. i really think president barack obama and my husband thinks the same thing. he's doing a great job. he's really in there trying the best he can. i'm a bit disappointed with some of the democrats that are striking their feet or dragging they're feet but overall they're much better than the

republicans. they have no ideas and i think basically they're still angry because of the election, and we're voting democrat. host: thanks for the call. washington post headline. super tuesday for both parties and one paragraph, everyone has a different definition of the anger. antiincumbent and antiobama and antiwashington - but the discretions of displeasure are everywhere. others say washington is not doing enough to penalize bankers or oversee as oil gushes from the broken well. this self identified maverick says campaign promise is too long and it costs too much. we need to move forward limiting the time and the money spent, need to campaign reform now is his point of view. new jersey? welcome. will you vote for the incumbent

in the upcoming midterm election? caller: probably. i called this morning, steve, to mention the fact that with regard to the reporter from the philadelphia inquirer that you had on earlier. host: canter-fitzger todd fitz? caller: yes. there was no mention of the speaker race. there's been by the senator darryl icer of california. he has called for a judicial investigation of the fact that the white houseovered a bribe to senator to drop out of the race. host: talked about in a debate two weeks ago. you did. i think it deserves to be brought up again. it's quite, i'd like to know where it's gone and if it's

gained any mo' mo momentum and great interest to the american people. i know this, the reporter didn't mention anything pertaining to that. host: in fairness, i didn't ask about it. it has been an issue in the campaign but we wanted to focus more on the narrow point of the race. spea a remember specter was one and now we really wanted to look at the race. caller: well this information could help voter decide. host: it did come up in the debate and if your interesting. that and the others covered in the midterm election are available at journal@cspan.org but it has been something talked about. caller: i think it should be continually brought up. it's of utmost importance to the american people and their former

government. thank you very much. host: thanks for calling. charles from texas. republican line. caller: republican. good morning. we're talking about income pe tense and stuff. okay. yes. we're talking about voting and stuff. we have a pelosi and all of them not doing their jobs up there just like health care they pushed on that. there's 2000 pages in that - you know it can't be all that's what is it. it's the other things and in school issues. i don't think they should ever put earmarked money out there. i think it ought to be on it's own me right. and we have people that you know, like obama comes up there and says, people who have ds

stuff on we're having ds here but he'll donate a billion dollars without asking about it. host: thanks for the call. as a li liberal i want the tea tarred - as he called it. goatee party assuming that is written tongue and cheek. the primary isn't next deuce day but in june. mark hop kins is on the phone. thanks for being with us. why is this veteran republican facing a challenge in his own party? guest: in his own version of the story he's become bob 2.0. sanding a tough rough edge of the first two-years in office in doing that, he's disappointing some of the more conservative

constituents. host: what does this tell you about the state of the republican party in the country? guest: think it's an interesting guest case in how important the tea party movement and various causes of the right wing party are going to be be. it really is a test of whether bob has lost track of his constituents. host: can you give us political demographics of the district? guest: sure. really bli republican disstakt has been for many years. carol campbell presented the district. on inc.le took it over from liz patton. gingrich revolution and committed three terms and really leaving and did leave, ran for the senate and lost and went

back to private life for a while and then went back into office in the same district when jim ran for senate. >> we saw him endorse a number of tea party type candidates or more conservative republican candidates. what's his political standing. what impact does it have on his own future in south carolina and lindsay graham who is seeking re-election? guest: sure. senator democrnt is trying accomplish himself in the right wing of the republican partner. it's a litmus test and he doesn't fit this story. the interesting part is of course if he's in trouble, then senator graham will be when he comes up for re-election. because bob inc. less is threatened as much as anything

on the basis of tone. he's not as - clearly conservative as some would like him to be. ho host is lindsay graham viewed the same. guess guess i think s guest: i think so. conversion investigations on why mate change and place him as a more moderate voice than some would like in the state and there's a question of whether that will cost him or not. host: there was a time in this town where there would be by tarty san ship. coming to some compromise on whatever the legislation happens to be. social security. reagan administration or they reach an agreement or taxes as we saw in welfare reform in the clinton administration. is it becoming more difficult for both parties to reach the compromises for what's happening

in the primaries. guest: think that's possibility. we're seeing some tests of that now. congressman ingliinglis, he's endorsed by thenra and taking strong anti-abortion condition positions and continues to do that. has taken republican positions that set him with the odds with the standard story of the republican party. obvious example is when joe wilson yell at the president in joint section of congress. he was one of seven to vote in a favor of a resolution that rebuked him from doing that. doesn't have political consequences but set him at odds with the rest of the republican party. >> as you watch the lead up to the june 8th prior mare what are you looking at in this race?

guest: very interesting. much of the race is happening in a way that's very hard to track. the two leading candidates of him and his leading a point solicitor and tray dowdy have been getting individual contributions. there's a radio station hammering away at the congressman, but the racistn't getting a lot of attention apart from one of the national media. and so it's very hard to tell what's going to happen. there certainly people out there who are arguing that he should be beaten but he looks solid in many other respects. host: have there been polls in this race? guest: i haven't seen any. i'm sure there is some polling out there. the best we can do is look at campaign contributions and by that metric although there are four notable people in the race.

mr. dowdy is his lead opponent and he and congress man inc.les have a couple of 100,000s based on the federal election commission report at the end of march. so you have to suspect it's a relatively close race. there's one more dynamic that's important and that is that we have a provision for run offs, so if congressman doesn't get 50% of the vote he ends up a run off and that run off is fueled part by the probability that we'll have a run off in a gubernatorial primary as well. host: do the headlines we've follow over the last year, does his own political standing have an impact in the republican p pr any in south carolina? guest: i think very little. he's definitely his own person.

he's made some endorsements and his former wife has made some endorsements. notably in the governor's race but you don't have the sense it swings a lot of votes in his case, even less. host: mark is joining us from south carolina. mike tompkins. keeping a close eye on the race. bob trying seek a seventh term. thanks for being with us. another twitter comment and there's a lot on our twitter page if you want to join on-line. here we go. steve as a conservative. i wish to thank liberals for the patriotic tolerance of the tea party. will you vote for the incumbrances bent in pennsylvania, kentucky. oregon or arizona or maybe maybe in the upcoming midterm election the first tuesday of november. lee from alabama. welcome.

what's your comment? caller: how you doing? yes, i will vote for my incumbent because i first met him and i think it was 79 middle of the summer hot day, and i was in my business looking out my window and i saw this man walking around from business to business, and then finally he walked across the highway and introduced himself to me and it was richard shelby. - he asked for my vote and at that time, i was a democrat. - and i agreed to vote for him. and i have watched him all these years and he's makes very wise

decisions. host: lee. thanks for the call. senator shelby sake player with the upcoming debate this week with the series of votes on financial regulation and whether or not there would be new stringent laws in place. ranking republican on the senate banking committee and you'll have a chance to see him on c-span two. the first round of votes late tomorrow afternoon and continuing through the week. laura says i guess my tweets are boring since i'm actually happy with our incumbents. next from arlington, texas. good morning. caller: good morning steve. host: your first name is vernon? caller: yes. i had two issues real quick here to the incumbent question, i would say no to the incumbents. the other is with "the beat"ing that everybody is taking out here on main street.

god knows losing jobs, it's about time we saw something happen in the federal area where employment is concerned. perhaps the 30 percent reduction in pay for everyone on the federal employment payroll and maybe even cut a bill of some type to apply that to deficit reduction. i would think that would take a bit of a chunk out of it. at least pay a lot of the interest. ann from tennessee. republican line. ann? caller: well, i have told our republican alexander i'm keeping an eye on him. he's changed quite a bit lately. kind of following lindsay graham from south carolina and he found out people were not happy with that but i think we need term

limits and people with courage to tack it will real problems like this out of control obama spending. this out of control government hiring and the out of control federal programs and these 44 million people on food stamps and this wide open borders to let everybody come in. we have a problem around here with hispanic answered the crime they're committing. in fact, right out of his town in maryville, there was a young girl drug underneath a car and these two hispanic men when they finally got them stopped got out and ran off and one of them was stupid enough to leave his driver's licence behind and so they're all going to vote and we need to get that stopped. host: is it the immigration specifically that has caused you greatest concern about senator alex anger? caller: yes we had a man, a mexican on mother's day

yesterday shoot the mother of his five children and shoot her in the head and ran off to north carolina. we're sick of the crime. they can run into your car in the parking lot and there's no penalty to them. they're not after their insurance or taken off the jail because they don't have a drivers license. they have more privileges and they're getting food stamps and we're educating their kids and we need somebody in there with the courage to stand up and say, this is going to stop and we're going to close the borders and we're going to put an end to all the federal programs that is killing the taxpayer. >> for do you want to see challenge him if he face as republican primary. caller: we need people here in tennessee to wake up. lamar goes along the get along until re-election and then he comes back conservative. host: erin from pennsylvania. big pry pair on tuesday.

caller: thanks for taking my call. i'm turning 22 this week and i love c-span. host: glad to hear that especially at the age of 22679 this is your second time voting? caller: that's correct. i voted democrat. this year i'm planning to vote for, seestak in the primary. it's not each necessarily incumbent, but mostly establishment in incumbent because of the endorsement from obama and rentle and the inspector has that ugly bush record behind him. to be one, i did a little research trying to find a third can d candidate but look like it's going to be one of the two. don't want to waste my vote and i would like the establishment guy out of there.

i think i'm going for him on tuesday. host: since you brought up pennsylvania. we talked about it with tom fitzgerald. there's a new ad out and we'll look at pat tomy. the that senate in pennsylvania. >> meet joe zestak called pennsylvania's effective new congress man but is not a new politician. he became a three star admiral and commanded an aircraft battle carrier group and served in president clinton's white house. democrat. joe zest okay. five years okay my daughter with us diagnosed with a brain tumor. we had great health care and my daughter made a full recovery and the experience changed my life. i decided to run for conference because every american deserves the health care i got. i found too many politicians

were concerns about keeping their jobs instead of serving the public and helping people. if we want real change in washington we can't seem the same career politicians to present us. i'm joe and i authorize this message because it's time for a new generation of leadership. >> many agree. he's the real deal. >> speaker came to fight for the working men and women of america and cast the vote in favor of recovery act that's help pulls back from the brink. he's going to fight for you regardless of the what the politics are. >> i'm or len speaker and i approved this message. >> trillion dollar bail-outs and government run health care. had enough? pat too manyy has been called

taxpayer heroes. taking on both parties when they waist dollars. >> i approved this message because future generations deserve better. >> i agree. >> more jobs, less government. >> ads now on the air in pennsylvania. the energy quire said his is a referendum and tom fitzgerald said they favor the intangible. speaker has a habit of winning close races in which his political obituary has been. he beat the year of the woman by three percentage points an and beat pat tomy in the gop primary. tomorrowc joins us from groves, texas. good morning to you. caller: good morning. host: will you vote for tin couple bent in the upcoming election? no. my congressman is ted poe.

i know he got it and still haven't had a response. host: you're going to vote against him? caller: yes. ho host there's anti incumbent feeling but it's not antidemocrat. there's way too many career politicians in washington. marry francis. warriors for pennsylvania on the republican line. caller: i'm not going to vote for the incumbent and as long as we don't have term limits, and get rid of the lobbyists we'll never in their lifetime have a good government. with what the problem is, if they haven't resolved problem in 12 years. give senators two terms and representatives two. if they really have the people in the united states in their heart, they'll get whatever they need to get done then. i had a grandfather a representative in pennsylvania and he went in for one term and

got hat he wanted to get done for one term. thank you. host: thank you for the call. william from north carolina. good morning. democrats line. caller: good morning. how you doing this morning? okay i won't be voting but i would like to make a comment and the comment is, we need to get our heads out of the sand and think what got us into this mess. remember when the republicans was in charge. how for eight year during iraq war and everything. that's what started this stuff. also about the tea party. have you ever see a tea party when at the ra list. you noticed it's about 90% white and that's not way america looks. looks like a klue klux klan rally. they don't present america. what do you think? host: we have phoenix and the upcoming primary in that state.

doesn't take place until august. thanks for being with us. guest: thanks. host: news over the weekend your reporting a change or shake up you describe in the mccain campaign. what's happening is guest: that's right. we confirmed on friday that mccain's campaign manager is leaving his campaign as is his deputy campaign manager who was a former state gop chairman and a long-time mccain ally. they're moving out to make way. i understand for a more battle ready campaign manager. they haven't announce who had the new manager will be. but i think the idea is, that she ri didn't have enough statewide campaign experience to kind of work in a campaign that's going to be as intensive. this one against hey worth. host: h poling numbers show jon mccain is still ahead anywhere

from 12-13 percentage points but a lot of people looking at what's been happening in pennsylvania as the race began to narrow the last month or so of the campaign. could the sh same thing happen arizona? guess guess i think probably lay 12-15 point race. they're internal polling i think shows that. but yeah, i guess it could narrow it. probably mccain's biggest fear. so far. hey worth hasn't been able to get out of the 30's. mccain is struggling a bit too. he's maybe around 50% in the polls a lot of poles show him in the high 40's. and that's normally a sign of potential vulnerability. that might be a saving grace that the others are not picking up either.

hey worth hasn't gotten enough momentum to shoot up the polls. host: this past week. jd hey worth came to talk about the primary challenge towards john mccain and the debate over the debates was front and center and he's arguing that john is ducking from debates and said here is a guy that's run for president and the senate before, has that been an issue? will there be debates? caller: well, mccain said he's waiting for all the candidates to get qualified, which i think the tate they'll be officially qualified is i think june tenth or so. mccain assured everybody once the field is set. he'll have a debate and wants all the candidates and the debate to qualify those for the ballot. there is third republican named jim deacon. much lesser known than hey worth but he's in the race as well and mccain is signalled he wants him

to participate as well. obviously a situation that may wo wants to debate so mccain is obviously not overly eager to have a lot of debate. host: national political from the state where the primary will be held. dan nowicki. i hear some of the ads now top air in arizona. >> home innovations. murder, we're out manned. of all the i legals in america more than half come through arizona. we got the right plan? >> plans perfect. >> you bring troops. state and county and local law enforcement and complete the dang fence. >> it'll work this time. >> senator you're one of us. >> i'm john mccain and i approved this message. >> i helped author with senator

kennedy comprehensive immigration reform and fought for it's passage not once but twice. >> hey worth was introducing the first act to support our border. he talks tough on the boarder but what about tomorrow? had enough. endorsed by this one. he's the consistent conservative. >> i approved this because border security is national security. >> it's a national issue and certainly an arizona issue. was there a change in policy or some may call a flip flop on the issue of the fence? guest: well mccain says, no. some people say it's certainly a flip flop and emphasis more than substance of the policy. he has been for counteracttive immigration reform. his campaign isn't the border security components of

comprehensive reform. you'll recall that included, you know several, multiple miles of fencing and vehicle barriers and that thing and benefits like a guest worker programs and a pathway to citizenship. there's always been fencing in the mix. i think not enough maybe for some of the border hard liners. like,jd hey worth. now he's definitely focused on the fence and on border security and on the guest worker program and other reforms. he says he still supports them and wants the border secured first and really he isn't eager to talk about them. host: is ate closed primary? guest: it's an open primary. host: dan nowicki. we'll check in as campaign unfold. appreciate your time. the question is will you vote for the incumbent as elections

get underway. in some cases primaries on tuesday or later this spring. ej from katy, texas. independent line. good morning. caller: thank you very much for taking my call. this is an incredible, incredible topic and i hope every politician in washington receives a copy of this program. americans are angry and we are angry because they are in office far too long doing absolutely nothing. with our tax dollars. americans vote to get these incumbents out of office. i hope the message is loud and clear. you were sent to do america's business and were not sent there's an career. the only, as far as i know the only career people in office

should be the supreme court. that's what my constitution says. everybody else - your there for a term and now americans, it's our fault because we keep voteing the same people over and over and over. and we know that they're doing nothing. wake up! get them out. i don't care if they're republicans, democrats. as a matter of fact, our governor, he's done a decent job. he's out. i don't want anybody that's been in office more than two terms to come and ask for my vote, my dollar or my time. host: governor perry seeking the fourth term is that current? caller: yes and it's absolutely too long. i'm frustrated that they're doing absolutely nothing but taking country in the wrong direction. i don't care of the party. they have been in there too long. they're not supposed to be there and do absolutely nothing.

do our work, and go home. host: thank you for the call. harry is joining us from pittsburgh. republican line. good morning. caller: in our state, the incumbents are democracy t demo. after seeing the arrogance of the people in washington. obama gave an interview calling the tea baggers and nancy below say called them nazis but they're the most be full i've seen on the t.v. pelosi says they're called racial slurs. nobody has any proof. these people, the lady before was correct. they're in office too long and they think they run us instead of us telling them what to do. that was proveified health care bill and now we have the cap and trade coming in to ruin this country. these people are the most arrogant name calling people i've ever seen in politics.

63 years old and i've seen a lot of people. never seen it in nixon. everybody hated hip him. look what a bo ma obama is sayi. >> tomorrow on c-span washington. peter is mind an effort with erik canter asking you to decide where the federal government should cut spending. it's called, you cut. he'll talk to us about a reaction. the proposal unveiled from congressman canter and he'll be with us in the 7:00 hour. the "washington journal" and 4:00 for the west coast. january from tall a see. good morning. democrats line? it'll help if i hit the button. sorry about that. caller: no. i won't vote for the incumbent.

i don't know. i don't want meeks and i don't want charlie chris. i don't want alan boyd. he's been around way too long and told too many lies. just for anyone's information i have to be in part with the tea party and it's a group of different people and we're all may importance and some are generational neighbors living here and we're every color and every stripe and so we're not quote conservatives or whatever. you would be surprised how many my fellow democrats are in this one particular in north florida. i don't know about anybody else but i won't be voting for incumbent at all. host: another comment from jean whoeds saying the guy that called in preaching the beck

handty comments. alex is joining us from new jersey. independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. just i would like to say that i'm definitely going to vote for someone from the party. i am going to vote for republican just to get him out of office. i think you need to turn congress and senate as fast as possible to have fresh people in there. obviously, collectively they always fail. two issues. one is fiscal issues. they're leaving or living far beyond they're means and that's bad thing. we're eventually going to be in the same trouble europe is in. the second problem is immigration. if there's not comprehensive imcongratulations reform. we, most of the people living in united states and i'm actually a

legal immigrant believe they have to lock the border and seal the government down and then we can talk about the immigration reform. host: by the way. tuesday night with the results coming in especially in those closely watched races in kentucky, pennsylvania and arkansas. we'll have speeches and results on the c-span networks. gary says do show the benefits american people would congress receive for serving the people. it will open a few eyes. next is anthony from roseville michigan. good morning. caller: good morning. steve. yeah. i want to vote for the incumbent in michigan but i got another thing about america being morally and politically correct. i mean, my thought is, okay. we're politically correct about

races in america. - and when i'm saying, why would we lower test scores to put minorities in position that they shouldn't have? host: anthony thanks for the call and we'll leave with a final point from judith. congress has their own monopoly game going. the longer they're in, they get too big to fail. mandatory retirement. thanks for your calls and twitters and e-mails on the question of where and will you vote for the incumbent in advance of the midterm elections. tomorrow morning on "washington journal" among the topics is the housing market which new numbers on for closures. guests are lauren pun from the national association of realtors and the national journal to talk about a plan put forth by the pentagon to cut military spending. -