no, not unless you count this guy, republican congressman, cliff stearns of florida, who says, sure,nts to investigate planned parenthood. cliff stearns, for the record, also wants to investigate whether president obama is secretly for ren and might secretly not be the president. cliff stearns, birther congressman, not exactly a barometer of the seriousness of government concerns. the idea there is something scandalous about planned parenthood is and has been a transparently fake controversy generated by the anti-abortion movement and their allies in politics and the fact that the susan g. komen foundation allowed theirselves to be part of that scam and looks to their supporters like an irreversible trail and hard to see how they retrieve their position as defender of women after playing a part in the demonize planned parenthood scam. in texas, the make planned parenthood into a scandal campaign has cost more than $35 million of federal funding for something called the texas woman's health program providing cancer screenings, pap smears, hormone patches and basic services to over 130

are you guys it's time for tide solheim award tonight coast to representative cliff stearns they'd already been found home building in florida turns mention that he was recently attacked for not supporting a new national park and this was his response. the deer that stern think that we should sell off our national treasures and his reasoning is that the government needs to tighten its belt and make cuts just like any american family would have an interesting and stearns and points a national park or something that needs to be cut for the good of the budget since the parts received two point two billion in government money and twenty tent all that same year their fence department of the defense budget was six hundred eighty billion dollars so yes turns really focusing in on the big dreams to our tax dollars there but i get to him the national parks which provide an affordable way for americans all over the country to see the country's national treasures and they're just not all that important that will stearns that might think that setting aside land for our children and their children to e

congressman cliff stearns recently questioned the legitimacy of the president's birth certificate.ajority cantor said i think cliff stearns does a good job with the chairmanship of the subcommittee. he has my full confidence. what does this say that they can't distant themself of the crazy? >> they're scared to death of the crazy. instead of saying, hey, guys, you're wrong, they basically let them do as they want. instead of taking them on, this is the trick they play, word game, why should i have to say something? that's what they believe rather than acknowledging your silence says a lot as well. karen finney, great to have you with us. thank you so much. >>> mitt romney says we need to thank george bush for the nation's economic recovery? e.j. is here to respond. later, the american hero versus the american zero. iraq veteran tammy duckworth is taking on alleged deadbeat dad, joe walsh. tonight, tammy duckworth is my exclusive guest. >>> the etch-a-sketch candidate, mitt romney, he's shaking things up again. he's having a hard time how to make president obama look bad while the e

nice to see that this time the american public has got it right the bad republican representative cliff stearns in a meeting with constituents in florida last month stearns told the audience that america needs to sell off a statue of national parks despite stearns's call for a fire sale of national parks fact is that national parks generate a significant amount of wealth for both the federal treasury and from local businesses at the mention they also generate a large number of jobs america's national parks represent our nation's history stern's wants to help improve our economy maybe should stop things instead like maybe oil subsidies and the very very ugly multimillionaire k. street lobbyists grover norquist in an interview with daily show last night jon stewart as the multimillionaire lobbyist grover norquist of president reagan should be scorned for raising taxes during his presidency with no. records that. reagan raised taxes one of them seven times eight times and george russian and lost the battle of new york that was not on purpose i mean the reagan didn't want to raise taxes he kept rai

cliff stearns said just yesterday, i am, shall we say, looking at all of the evidence. what a joke. so the little clown show continues on. >>> next up, where was ron paul while mitt romney and rick santorum are aweight the result of the illinois primary in sitting down with jay leno on the tonight show. talking about that he and romney are in cahoots and why he doesn't want secret service protection as candidate. let's watch. >> there are rumors going around that there is a secret deal with you and mitt romney. you seem to be friendly. >> right. >> anything to that? >> there is something about it, very secret, because he and i don't know a whole lot about it. >> should newt gingrich get out of the race? >> i'm not telling him what to do but i think the other three should just get out of the race. >> why did you reject the secret service protection? seems like that would be a -- >> well, it is a form of welfare. you are having the taxpayers pay it take care of somebody. i'm an ordinary citizen. >> secret service codes were the buzz yesterday. when it was revealed that mitt romney cho

and now we're watching, and i talked with cliff stearns the chairman of the oversight committee of energy. fred upton the chairman of the envelope committee. these guys are watching these document dumps coming on fridays throwing their hands up saying when in the world are you guys over at the white house going to level with the american people? slowly but surely we are starting to see what was really going on with solyndra and other companies like them. martha: let's take a couple of these emails so people can get a sense of this. after they combed through the dump on friday, this is what they found. this i the first one. can't do solyndra they've run into issues yesterday. this is from the director of white house message events. she wrote that on january 5th of 2011 in an email that was written. here is another one. >> reporter: exactly, ugh is what everyone associated with it would be saying in the white house. they kept trying to put a good face on it and push it. martha: why? >> reporter: plus of the political vulnerability this president finds himself in. martha, here is a guy who h

cliff sternz, republican of florida. and talking about a number of key issues dealing with cyber security. congressman stearns is concerned about what you heard a moment ago and also a crippling siper attack, the impact it could have on the u.s. many electrical networks operate on smart grid technology. that relies on computers to determine electrical needs, technology is more energy efficient. but makes the systems vulnerable to cyber attacks. we don't know exactly what happened in the u.s. senate. we do know there is a closed door meeting led by the department of homeland security january innapolitano in which ts topic generally was discussed to members of the u.s. senate. what you heard a moment ago was from a house hearing that took place earlier in the day. we deal with cyber security issues and other communication issues every week on the communicators. it airs saturdays at 6:30 p.m. eastern time. coming up on "communicators, a conversation with joe leberman of connecticut, susan collins of maine working through legislation in the house and the senate on cyber security. >> what is the goal of the cyber

were about to fall off the cliff, i think many of the financial giants, so to speak, would have taken anything. >> some of them department want t.a.r.p. citigroup, aig, bear stearnslehman brothers. some did. >> sure, you can do anything you want and we'll take it. >> all right. but there's a difference between forgetting and being ungrateful and disafwreg with some of the remedies that are being applied and looking at credit. >> it's difficult when you paint them all with a broad brush. you did have people in big, big trouble and others who weren't. >> it also helps them play into the narrative it was all the banks which we know was a huge global society, a housing boom, it was a leverage boom that was ten years in the making, there were government policies that were flawed. >> that's a good point. >> all these different things. once again, immediately pins it all on the guys that perpetrate it had and they haven't learned their lesson and it also is done to try to push all these -- it's an election year. >> he's yelling at you although i was making the point. >> i'm going to agree with becky. >> that's why i said let me talk before -- >> i'm going to agree with