democratic calller. caller: thank you. i just wanted to know, why is it that everyone is putting pressure on obama, and no one will tell the real reason we are in the deficit? bush did nothing. why not blame it on him? i just want to say to you, and i am not trying to be crass or anything, but i want to know why is it that white people think nobody has [inaudible] that is the only problem with the president. he is not white. that is the big problem. nothing wrong with obama. he is the best present we have had yet. host: let's take the point of bush not paying for things. democrats bring that up. the wars were not part of the budget. guest: it is something no one can defend. the practice of putting the afghanistan war as a supplemental appropriation. they gave us them the appearance of being temporary in some sense. clearly they are not. it in no way constitutes good budget practice. then a republican criticize the administration for this. i think that stands out. just because they did not put on the budget, does not mean t

let's go to a calller in florida. caller: my question is, since they're having the governors' meeting now, it would be a good time to bring up, we owned the federal lands, even though the government takes care of them. the drilling is going on, and the oil coming out of there, they belong to every person in the united states. we are now shipping oil overseas. there should not be one that drop of oil from these oil companies here to be shipped overseas. guest: i do not know the specifics of what he is talking about. i am a little surprise we would be shipping overseas when we are such a big consumer, but there are trade flows that move differently at times that if you have up oil needs in the gulf, but are producing oil in alaska, that sometimes because it is a commodity, you can see that go from alaska to japan, because it is cheaper to ship oil into the gulf of mexico. that is also all the more reason for doing the major pipeline bit the obama administration just backed out on. that is a pipeline that goes from canad

democratic calller. caller: thank you. i just wanted to know, why is it that everyone is putting pressure on obama, and no one will tell the real reason we are in the deficit? bush did nothing. why not blame it on him? i just want to say to you, and i am not trying to be crass or anything, but i want to know why is it that white people think nobody has [inaudible] that is the only problem with the president. he is not white. that is the big problem. nothing wrong with obama. he is the best present we have had yet. host: let's take the point of bush not paying for things. democrats bring that up. the wars were not part of the budget. guest: it is something no one can defend. the practice of putting the afghanistan war as a supplemental appropriation. they gave us them the appearance of being temporary in some sense. clearly they are not. it in no way constitutes good budget practice. then a republican criticize the administration for this. i think that stands out. just because they did not put on the budget, does not mean t

odessa is the next calller. caller: good morning. i want to thank you for c-span. i am saddened that every time we start denigrating are wro iran. iran elected at democratically prime minister in the 1950's and was during eisenhower administration in partnering with the british because of their ownership of the oil. they put in the shop. we were fighting with the way the sharp strong-armed the country, but when iran decided enough was enough in 1979, and they did take hostages and overthrow him, we became venomous spirit and i want to thank and madeleine albright for acknowledging the fact that this country made a terrible mistake in 1953 when they overthrew that prime minister. nevertheless, we have been on a trip factory to destroy this country ever since. the people, and i resent the use of the term, ordinary -- i do not know if there is an ordinary person, so average works for me. we navigated the catawba we attacked iran by proxy. we impose sanction upon station. this is the people of iran and not the government. guest: well, again, i think you are raising an

we will begin with a calller in florida. you are on the air.ler: representative frank it is good to speak with you. in terms of the budget, i feel many members of congress may be compromised or black mailable because they are in their closet about the sexual orientation like senator lindsey gramm. i am wondering how many people in congress are compromise that way come and have you ever been invited to go to the bohemian grove? guest: i have never been invited to the bohemian grove. as i understand, it is a group of wealthy, powerful people in california, and i don't knopw w more than that. i have no comment to make about any individual and have no knowledge of any individual. there are obviously some gay men and lesbians in the congress that had not made that public. i would say this, when you look at those in politics that have responded come increasingly if you are a democrat, and i think this is pretty much the case, if you are a democrat is have in politics the past couple of decades, you pay no penalty for being honest about your sexuality

. >> we have a kansas calller. host: we have a kansas caller. guest: i am from parker.y brother still lives there. good to hear the name lacine. caller: i am very concerned about a story i heard where they are denying benefits to the children of undocumented workers. those children that were born, they are not here of their own volition. they did not come here themselves. i am extremely concerned that denying milk to little babies, as winston churchill put it, i am very concerned about that. if i do not have a right, i would like you to correct me and what our decision is in dealing with these persons come up because it seems to me like we experience a great deal of positive work, and if we are inviting these people in, it looks to me that, it seems to me like what president bush did, i am hearing that rumbles that the thing was for scott at 75 miles per hour on 199 street, that that was created, helped be billed by undocumented workers. >> i do not know about that. here is the issue, and here's what is presented to me. if you have a household with two people, two docum