what might be different after frum's seven-year relationship at aei?pinion piece for cnn in which he concluded that the waterloo for president obama predicted by jim demint had indeed arrived for the republican party, and frum repeated that charge on this network. >> in this debate republicans have listened to the most radical voices in the party. no compromise, hand the president his waterloo. if this turns out to be our waterloo today, then there has to be an accountability moment for that. this will be a much worse outcome than we could have got than if we had negotiated early. that was shouted down, we went the radical way looking for waterloo and we arrived at waterloo. >> and listen to what he said. >> republicans originally thought that fox worked for us, and now we're discovering we work for fox. and that the balance here has been completely reversed and the thing that is -- that sustains a strong fox network is the thing that undermines a strong republican party. >> let's bring in the washington, d.c., columnist for politicsdaily.com. the vote

forced out because of his waterloo comment, he was forced out because he wasn't spending any time at aeiin talking to several people the there, he was never there and never participated. his story has evolved and the criticisms have evolved. david frum calls himself a conservative when he has evolved but people still call him that. >> never might be overstating it slightly, erick erickson, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you very much. >>> david frum says he was very productive during his time at the american enterprise institute, having written three books a thousand columns and made untold tv appearance with aei under pressure from donors, frum says his firing came a day after a wa"wall street journal" editorial denouncing him. >>> coming up, candy crowley will reputatipereputatioperepupp with the superguarantee® shield. you'll get the job done right, or we'll step in and help to make it right. so, protect yourself with a business backed by the superguarantee®. only at superpages.com®. and let the good guys come to the rescue. well, the tiguan's great. mm. and the routan h

in 1982 when norm ornstein and i were barely teenagers we were introduced a series of sessions at aei called politics watch called election watch, excuse me. and that is now the longest running election program in washington. but this year we decided to supplement the election programs that will begin in june this year with another session called politics watch where we would look at the hot issues of the day. and, of course, the -- i can't think of an issue that's hotter than the filibuster is right now. i'd also like to recommend you another institutional announcement. if you aren't subscribers of our aei political report, you can give us our cards at the end of the session and we'll sign you up for that. i'd like to turn the session over to my colleague, john fortier who will be monitoring the session. >> we have the world's most distinguished panel of people who know the filibuster but more importantly people who know the senate and congress because the filibuster is another way of saying that are there are deeply embedded rules and traditions in the senate that allow for unlimite

welcome to aei. think we have the world's most distinguished panel of people who know the filibuster but more importantly people who know the senate and congress because the filibuster is another way of saying that there are deeply embedded rules and traditions in the senate that allow for unlimited debate in many ways. so we'll talk today -- some about the filibuster, some about cloture, one of the procedures that we use to close off the filibuster. we'll also hopefully delve into some issues that are very pertinent interest today with healthcare being potentially debated on the floor in the next few weeks where we might use procedures called reconciliation. a procedure that doesn't require a super-majority as does breaking a filibuster by cloture. so we really have today not only some thoughts about a deep question that people have raised for many, many years, certainly going back to famously woodrow wilson where the question of should a majority rule in the senate and how should a legislative body

i'm a member of aei political's person and i'd like to welcome all of you washington early birds andour c-span audience of the past, presence and future of the filibuster. in 1982 when norm ornstein and i were barely teenagers we were introduced a series of sessions at aei called politics watch called election watch, excuse me. and that is now the longest running election program in washington. but this year we decided to supplement the election programs that will begin in june this year with another session called politics watch where we would look at the hot issues of the day. and, of course, the -- i can't think of an issue that's hotter than the filibuster is right now. i'd also like to recommend you another institutional announcement. if you aren't subscribers of our aei political report, you can give us our cards at the end of the session and we'll sign you up for that. i'd like to turn the session over to my colleague, john fortier who will be monitoring the session. >> we have the world's most distinguished panel of people who know the filibuster but more importantly people w

thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, aei for organizing the panel. a very privileged to be on with such distinguished people and good friends. i served with speed in baghdad and was thankful when shea-porter issued in to figure out how it was we would create the selection system working with the iraqis to do so. i want to make three quick points today. first i think these elections in iraq are going to be about the future, not about the past. second, the electoral system we now have will tend to cement emerging local and regional parties within the broad coalitions that exist and three the formation because the first two issues will be extremely complicated after the elections take place. so .1, these elections are about the future, not the past. as corrina mentioned in the january 09 provincial elections, voters had it. they had had it with islamist slogans and the pretences their issues were being addressed and look forward to throwing the bums out and they threw the bums out. i don't think there was incumbent, very few incumbents were left standin

but overall, a success story and one i know that we are very proud of here at aei and much of that can be attributed to the wonderful, wonderful work of our troops. i'm not going to say anything more except to quickly introduce our speakers here today who will address the issues and you will find their full biographies online at aei.org. in order of speaking today, we have carina perelli who is the united nations elections better in and now the executive vice president of the international foundation for electoral systems. next to her scott carpenter was the custom family fellow in the director of project theocrat at the washington institute for near east policy, also a veteran of iraq and the cpa and even more battle scarred veteran of the department of state. next to him, we have brian katulis was a senior fellow at the center for american progress, does a great deal of work on middle east issues and u.s. national security policy. michael rubÉn, ira aei resident scholar and michael, i was a traditional teitelbaum, also a senior lecturer at the naval postgraduate school on middle east

i am the senior fellow here at aei.i would like to thank all of you washington early birds and our live the c-span audience to this discussion on the filibuster. in 1982, when we were barely teenagers, which introduced a session called "politics watch -- called "elections watch." we decided to supplement the election programs with another section -- with another session called "politics watch." issue that's hotter than the filibuster is right now. i'd also like to recommend you another institutional announcement. if you aren't subscribers of our aei political report, you can give us our cards at the end of the session and we'll sign you up for that. i'd like to turn the session over to my colleague, john fortier who will be monitoring the session. >> we have the world's most distinguished panel of people who know the filibuster but more importantly people who know the senate and congress because the filibuster is another way of saying that are there are deeply embedded rules and traditions in the senate that allow for u

i am a fellow at aei and editor of their flagship magazine. we are here today to talk about competitiveness, u.s. competitiveness. to just set the table a little bit for our conversation, just a little over a decade ago, the u.s. auto maker ford acquired the swedish auto maker volvo. some might have looked at this and see it as a positive development for american competitiveness, an iconic american firm went out and purchase an iconic european rival. but just this week, we found out that ford is selling a full vote to a chinese firm -- selling volvo a chinese firm that i am sure most americans have never heard of. someone look at this as a bad sign for american competitiveness, the u.s. has to sell a major asset to a chinese company, and to one that most americans have not heard of. the president seems interested in expanding the conversation about american competitiveness, and just late last month, he gave a major speech on competitiveness in which he said the following -- "we need to invest and nurture the industries of the future and train

the head of aei takes david frum to lunch saying we're paying you $100,000 a year, you may be on radioelevision six times a week, writing 300,000 words a year for your various gigs but the mail, the packages are piling up outside your office. you're seldom in the office. you know what, david, how would you like to just work for us for free? how would you work for us on a piecemeal basis? we're not going to pay you your big salary? now, david frum tells us in an interview last night that he believes this is because of pressure from donors that it's another symptom of the tea partization of the conservative movement that the elites -- he likes the aei folks -- aren't in charge. they're getting so much pressure from below. >> you know, though, i'm sorry, i keep hearing about everything that goes bad for democrats now is blamed on the tea party. and it's getting really old. david frum said that the passage of a bill that should be to every conservative, small government, republican in america was our waterloo, was the conservative movement's waterloo. we should have somehow just let the fe

it personal, but i do not believe a word that you are saying, especially coming from a democrat from aei we got your point. can you give one specific that would support what you are saying? caller: if my wife had brought in money for 10 years, we would still be married. we are going to pay for things for four years before we see benefits? host: when it comes to this legislation, does it pay for itself over years, or do new funding mechanisms need to come in place over the coming years? guest: not only was he calling me a liar, but he was calling the cbo this contest. they are the independent farmer -- arbitor. actually, it reduces the deficit over the first few years and even more so in the second decade. a key piece is in the point that the spending -- the bulk of the spending does not occur for the first four years. spending begins primarily in 2014 when affordability subsidies kick into play. host: as someone who has been around public health care debates, do you foresee changes in the legislation, such as the change made to medicare part b to close the doughnut hole? guest: this is a