as debbie wasserman shultz said, there is a movement to the right, certainly, in the party.t do you see, for instance, the rick perry effect being on the republican field and how the white house might try to pivot to deal with it? >> it's going to have a galvanized effect on that race. you can tell from his speech today. this is a big day within the republican primaries. you could easily see a rick perry-mitt romney race. he's immediately going to be first tier candidate. is it possible that he'll do a belly-flop ala fred thompson? yes. but more likely he will be formidable. he will be derided as a brunette bush or a reagan with a twang. you know, whatever the democrats will start to come after him on. and -- but it's a little bit harder to go after his record because there is some job creation there. and democrats who are looking to rick perry as easier to beat than mitt romney should be careful what they wish for, some -- sometimes these things don't, with out as well as they might seem. if you go back to 1980, there were a lot of democrats who were hoping that the republi

but a couple of weeks ago, you had the wasserman shultz -- debbie wasserman shultz, and it was filthy. it made me sick. i cannot believe c-span was allowing that. i wish people would look into the health-care plan. i have already suffered from an. my daughter saved my life three times from cancer has quit because of the health-care plan. i had a new package sent to me in the mail, a new primary care doctor, and i already had one. on top of that, they tell me i have to pay for my medicine. host: on the so-called super committee that will be formed, here is "usa today." he played key roles in the debt deals in the 1990 talks and talks about spending cuts that worked for several years were waived when it became to difficult to meet. independence from portland, maine, good morning. caller: the biggest thing that people fail to realize is the uncertainty for business. if they want to go on with both sides talking about jobs and the economy, uncertainty is horrible for businesses in terms of hiring decisions. on top of that, we have the deficit, and the article you just spoke about, where d

other big story, of course, is the extraordinary return of gabby giffords, congresswoman debbie wasserman-shultz was by her side last night for the remarkable scenes. she joins me along with congresswoman giffords' chief of staff. let me start with you, debbie wasserman-shultz. quite a remarkable thing to watch. no one was xpekexpecting it. everyone kept it very quiet. then the whole house erupted. what was it like for you to be with the congresswoman? >> well, it's always wonderful to be with gabby no matter what opportunity you have to spend time with her. and the chance to help her triumphantly walk back into that chamber and see the electricfication of the floor erupt as you said. members weeping, tears of joy. just the exhilaration that ran through people, you know, this was a time of a lot of tension of frozen hearts. and gabby giffords melted even the most frozen heart in that chamber yesterday. it was amaiszing. >> it was. and it was pretty ironic, of course, given the extreme partisan nature of this debate for the last few weeks an the general sense of washington losing its marbles that