. >> daniel patrick moynihan, united states senator from new york, said democrats are the party of the government. >> brooks said that's the problem. liberals still believe in government when most americans don't. he quotes one poem that reports only 10% of americans trust government to do the right thing most of the time. that makes it hard for liberals to call for more government. >> i agree liberal, the party of government. you -- look, an individual in society who is not well born, not born with all kinds of advantages, needs help to -- to be able to self-able chutize through the education system, through commune organizations to get through college it costs to go to a private college at $50,000 a year. with people who work hard just to -- to make a living, it's not easy, and they need a hand from somewhere, particularly since we now live in an age of global capitalism when corporations have no, feel no sense of responsibility at all to local communities, or even the country themselves. so if you want to -- if you want to give people genuinely equal opportunity which is what disapp

lucky enough to get to know on a personal basis the late democratic senator from new york daniel patrick moynihan. every so often, the great liberal intellectual that he was, would call me from the phone and offers some ideas. i should say as an aside that this is the secret to being the editorial editor of the "wall street journal," get people to call you with good ideas. one of his ideas late in life was that the big institutions of government had to be reformed. he was talking about the tax code, the education system. he had particular interest in the great middle-class entitlements of medicare and social security. he said they were designed for an earlier era. they were becoming unaffordable as americans demographics changed and they were crowding out other good, liberal purposes for government spending, education, transportation, a safety net for the poor. he told me that the democratic party should reform these programs because they offered them. they had created them and they had an obligation to fix them so they could continue on and the is useful to american society in the 21st century a

. >> that was something i learned covering the congress when senator daniel patrick moynihan was in the congress, and just watching this whole debate it makes you understand that every side is suspect no matter what it does, wolf. you have the congress being suspect with such a low approval rating and having approved health care reform in a very partisan way and in our polls, the supreme court is suspect. half of the public believes it makes political decisions and barack obama is somebody who polarizes the american public one way or another, some like the president and some don't like the president. if the law had been passed in a bipartisan way, i don't think, sure, it might have been challenged before the court at one point or another, but i think this kind of vitriol that sets it up to be a huge, political argument and a huge part of the political discussion in the campaign would not exist. >> we'll see how the attorney general and the justice department respond to this federal appeals court judge tomorrow. gloria will be filling in for john king later today, "john king usa" at 6:00

your right to hold those views as i do mine, but it is not in dispute, as the late great daniel patrick moynihan said, everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not their own facts. in the 2004 election, george bush got 84% of all of the southern baptists who chose to vote, and in 2008, john mccain got 74,000 -- 74%. most of them did not go that way because they are republican. they voted that way because they are pro-life. that determines how they vote in presidential elections. when it comes to the ryan budget, but i think you're being very unfair. he spends about the same amount of government money on the programs that the government funds in our society that we were spending in 2008. that is hardly a radical budget. our government has spent about 20.6% of the gross domestic product since world war two, and under president obama it has gone to over 25%, which has enabled him to increase the national debt by 50% in four years. it is mr. obama's budget that is so radical that it was defeated 415-0 in the house of representatives because it is a piece of fiction. it is a non-workable budget. it

lucky enough to get to know on a personal basis the late democratic senator from new york daniel patrick moynihanhe was, would call me from the phone and offers some ideas. i should say as an aside that this is the secret to being the editorial editor of the "wall street journal," get people to call you with good ideas. one of his ideas late in life was that the big institutions of government had to be reformed. he was talking about the tax code, the education system. he had particular interest in the great middle-class entitlements of medicare and social security. he said they were designed for an earlier era. they were becoming unaffordable as americans demographics changed and they were crowding out other good, liberal purposes for government spending, education, transportation, a safety net for the poor. he told me that the democratic party should reform these programs because they offered them. they had created them and they had an obligation to fix them so they could continue on and the is useful to american society in the 21st century as they had been in the 20th. but he said if the democr