do you get the sense that what dick armey is doing is more strategic?r is he trying to focus on what the key issues are? >> well, i think two things. i think number one he's trying to sort of re-establish himself as sort of the great puba of the tea party movement. so i think he has some selfish desires but at least trying to get them on the same page. you're right, i think on most fiscal issues, the tea party is pretty much in lockstep. but as we know, every political party has a lot of issues that they care about and social issues can be incredibly divisive. even though you might have a unified front in terms of the size of government, you throw issues in like gay marriage and abortion where not every republican agrees. and top of that, people feel very strongly about it. that presents a risk for that. so i do think -- i think for the tea party -- this is probably something you see dick armey try to communicate. i think their best option is to try as best as they can to simply focus on these primary principles of limited government, lower taxes, chipp

dick armey says no conflict. well in the house, they're prepared to have a vote on banning earmarks, but as u you well know, they're saying i don't think so, we don't want to do that. here's senator mikely, a tea party guy who knocked off an incumbent republican senator saying they better make that a priority. >> i support a ban on earmarks a moratorium, until such a time as we can get a permanent reform mechanism in place. we need a system that will -- what we need in the meantime is to get congress off the bottle. while it irons out those proposals. >> when dick armey says no conflict, maybe not so much conflict with the house, but with the senate? >> definitely with the senate, with the senate leadership, there's some inrunning around, the demint-coburn earmark moratorium, what they're going to do. there's a report out that basically next week they're going to flood the zone with several earmarks banning proposals so they can say i supported cutting spending without actually directly answering the question. mi

works, dick armey discusses the tuesday election results and a look at the effect of a new health care law medicare with the centers for medicare and medicaid services. >> washington leaders are reacting to and asking -- and an answering questions as to what americans want from them. good morning on this wednesday, november 4. will we know which party controls the chambers on capitol hill. we have political races that have yet to be called for a for the senate, washington state and alaska are still counting ballots this morning. we will likely not know the outcome for weeks. the president and republican rout leaders are strategizing on what is next. this morning, we want to hear from you about your expectations for these leaders pretty fun numbers are on your screen and you can e-mail us at c-span.org for a twe aet, cspanwj. let's begin with the front "page of usa today." compromise or conflict. do you want your elected leaders to compromise or do you expect gridlock. aboutsaid, we don't know house races that have not been called out there. you can follow along on our website come c-sp

host: dick armey is are desperate rick on the democratic line in california, you're up first. caller: i went up to see the only president in the last 70 years to balance the budget and pay down the national debt, in your tea party were there with all kinds of signs, yelling all kinds of horrible things about him. so is this really about a balanced budget and national debt? why are they complaining about clinton. it has nothing to do with national debt. it has everything to do with the democrats being in the white house, and they are still mad at clinton. sorry about that socialist comment, randy. guest: i do not know what it is you are referring to. in the political discourse -- and remember, all political discourse is just one step shy of brain death, in respect of of what partisan discourse it comes from. i was there. the one thing i will always admire it and appreciate about president clinton is when we worked on budget matters, for all the eight years i worked with the president and during his entire presidency, he personally sat at the table and worked through the negotia

i think that dick armey is right. they have to put this up for roh. my other advice is to focus on the weak link which is the individual mandate. if they could repeal that and make that the singular issue, the whole house of cards will crumble down. this is unpopular with people who have health insurance which is the vast majority of people in the country. their rates have gone up since this legislation passed. that is a good [unintelligible] and it will keep pounding on it. >> let's be clear. it had an income tax surplus that went into effect right away. my father got health insurance as a part of his retirement package from his employer and headed catastrophic health insurance because why did he have to pay a search charge for something he already had? there was a difference, it was ill-conceiveda conceale build. >-- bill. further in thech senate. the five leading up to that end the debate -- the fight leading up to that end the debate, the one thing that democrats feel that is expanding to people, people think the first thing that open-ended comes

host: we are back with dick armey of freedomworks, part of the tea party movement. "our latest tea party candidates let down republicans at the final hurdle." "tuesday night was in some respects a failure. never s the house of representatives changed hands without the senate following suit, and the tea party movement should take the on's share of the blade. the republicans fell at leas four seats short of taking the senate. there were responsible for the book cost of at least three senate seatshat were essentially there for the taking. guest: i got a kick out of that story. what i found interesting is the financial times placed right above that story two perfectly ideal establishment candidates in california, very well-known successful businesswoman, funding their own campaigns. they lost, too. writedn't they "outrageously well-founded moderates led down in calirnia." nobody lives everything they put up to the fact of the matter is, 55 elected members of the house of representatives and 12 new part of the tea party contract with america. marco rubio -- it would prob

[laughter] with my good friend, dick armey. irst of all, and dick is within his rights to continue to raise money for freedom works on the issue of health care. i understand that. [laughter] he'll continue to do that. i don't think this election was determined by health care. this election was determined by 9.6% unemployment and the unwillingness and inability of the administration to focus on that issue to the exclusion of almost everything else. also i think the administration made a mistake in taking cap and trade to the floor first before health care because that was, that's what sunk a lot of democrats in the midwest. i don't think those democrats lost on health care, dick, i think they were on the wrong side of cap and trade, and i think if the president had taken health care to the floor first before cap and trade, it would have passed earlier, and it would have been a more opportunity for it to gain acceptance. but your, you have every right to wave the flag and tear down health care, and i know you will do that very eff

participants include richard trumka and dick armey. this is one hour and 40 minutes. >> what happened last night? >> thank you for putting this on. this will be a substantive thing. what a difference a day makes. we had a mess tsunami. -- on that got some numbing. -- mega tsunami. it is more than the house or the salmon -- the senate. you have to look at the governorships and the legislatures of the country. we had 19 bodies, and governors, and the redistricting process coming up which will be smaller there because we have part of the decision making progress on that. those of the facts. what happened? last but the people spoke. it was of rejection, i believe, of the obama administration. i stood before you with the national press club and talked about what had happened then. as a the responsibility for the defeat and congratulated president-elect obama and said that we are a center-right country. if he lurched to a less rigid lurched to the left, the republicans would be back. i think he did and i think his agenda was overreaching and

who are going to be supportive all the time, "and don't waste your time "going to see people like dick armey, "who are always going to be "against federal funding for the arts. "go for the fence-sitters. "go for the ones who really don't know "what you're doing with the n.e.a. and what art--in-- for our society is all about." and yet you did not shy away from at least engaging some people who clearly were on the other side. you paid visits to jesse helms, newt gingrich. was that time well invested? i do believe it was in the long run. jesse helms and i-- we must never forget that he's a courtly southern gentleman, and he's not an uncivil person at all in person. he's quite charming, in fact. he and i obviously were going differ on many, many things, but he was an important person and an important person to get to know, to pay attention to. i tried to understand what amendments he was going to bring up. of course, he would never tell me. he's a secretive man too. but i didn't want to alienate this person any more than he already felt alienated. he was disappointed in me, because i didn't do a

i daresay, speaker boehner understands this as well as we do. >> that's what dick armey says, it willers deal with moderate republicans in congress. tony, back to you. >> paul, appreciate it. have a crab cake for me. put it on my bill. >>> your next political update in one hour. for the latest political news go to cnnpolitics.com. >>> time for the help desk, where we get answers to your financial questions. joins me is carmen wong ulrich, and let's get right to our first question. lebron writes in i'm interested in consolidating all the debt on my credit report and paying it off. is that smart in will i pay less in the long run? >> it's always smart, but you have to look at not only the average rate, because you have difficult balances on different cards with different interest rates, so you do some math, go to some calculators at dinkytown.net and plug in your numbers and see what you could get as a consolidated loan. it depends if you have good or bad credit. that's the first thing you want to do, get the interest rates down. also you have to put more money towards the debt. >> if y

participants include brian barrett and bart gordon and dick armey. this is four hours. >> what happened last night? >> what a difference a day makes and what happened last night? we had a tsunami. you have to go back to 1948 when they work 70 seats that chained. it is more than the house, more than the senate with at least six that we picked up. you have to look at the state legislatures and governors of a country. we'll probably 19 bodies of the legislature, maybe 10 governors, and the redistricting process coming up from our standpoint will be much fairer now because we have part of the decision making process on that. those of the facts. what happened? class that the people spoke. it was a rejection of the obama administration. two years ago i stood before you at the national press club and walked -- and talk about what happened then. i accepted responsibility for the defeat and congratulated obama. i said that we are a center- right country which we still are. i warned that if he lurched to the left and choked on responsibility, that the republic

and ginny thomas, his wife, was working for dick armey. she had said the justice was a big fan of c-span and he had known who i was, and i said, oh, i think he's great. she said, why don't you write him a letter? i said, okay. so i wrote him a letter and be told him i admired his courage and the career path he had taken to be, ultimately, appointed to the supreme court. and i said it would be an honor to meet you. and i gave the letter to ginny, and nothing happened, and days went by. all of a sudden i got a call from dorothy in his office and said the justice wants to know if you're free in the next few minutes if you want to pop over. and i flew out of the longworth building, and i went over and spent probably four hours in the justice's chambers. and if you haven't read the book, you need to read "my grandfather's son," because it traces his life from the time he's born up until he's about to be sworn into the bench on the supreme court. and the stories that he had told me were heart wreaking -- heartbreaking, but they gave me inspirati

when i look at the speakers, it's same old, same old, it's bill bennett, ed mease, dick armey. >> sure. well, i will tell you on sunday, we took advantage of the time we had here. we interviewed potential candidates for chief of staff. we were not able to attend any of those functions and organizations and the meetings that they had because we felt we needed to get a drop on maximizing our time here. as far as attending those, i was not able to do so, so i can't really go into what was said or how it was said or how it was interpreted. >> congresswoman bass, tell me about your minutiae. did you pick out your office? do you know where to park? did they give you the pledge pin yet? >> we don't have the pin until we are sworn in on january 5th. we pick our offices on friday. we have been involved in the day-to-day work of what it means to be in office. i was sworn in six years ago in the state assembly. >> that's a pretty quick career path for you. six years ago and you've been the speaker of the california assembly. >> in california, we have very strict term limits. and so, that's right.

we're going to be joined by dick armey. the author of "freedom works." and james carville. i want to begin with your double on "saturday night live." i want to talk to you about the republican congress. >> good riddance. have you ever seen the house of representatives? it's like a waiting room for jury duty. when you see the house on c-span, it's like a family reunion with only weird uncles. >> you were joking there. could having congress change hands be good for the party in the long run? good for the president in the long run? >> i don't feel like it today. congratulations to former congressman armey, who was very instrumental in starting this whole tea party thing. it may be. but there's not going to be a lot of common ground. whichever side gets its sea legs first and is able to adjust, it will be a new reality in washington. there's some reasons why the white house can. it's more unified. it's easier to do. the republicans are going to be split. there's going to be so many things. i would like to announce my endorsement of michele bachmann for that position. i'd like t

and you just to get out and talk about issues in the most respectable way and then working for dick armey she said the justice was on c-span and i said i think he is great and she said write him a letter. i

ear makes and what he asked me to do was to take his one page position paper and forward it to dick armey and i thought that was strange. we took that one page and looked at it and it doesn't make sense to me. >>neil: he is trying to justify the system the way we have it now because the idea is, it would be in the president's hands so it would be a unilateral disarmament. >>reporter: what you see is, to me, and with all due respect, he has been a great conservative on many issues including global warming, but, here he is out of step with the american people. the american people say enough, they want to see a ban on earmarks and it has been done in the house of representatives and it should be done in the senate and he should listen to the american people. he is out of step with the people. >>neil: i have had a chance to speak to a lot of the tea party candidates and those would led them like you and there is a lot of friction going into this weekend orientation that carries over to early next week, with all of newly elected men and women coming to congress, and many of them from the tarp

with dick armey of freedomworks, part of the tea party movement. "our latest tea party candidates let down republicans at the final hurdle." "tuesday nht was in some respects a failure. never has the house of representatives changed hands without the senate following suit, and the tea party movement should take the lion's share of the blade. the republicans fell at least four seats short of taking the senate. there were responsible for the book cost of at least three senate seats that were essentially there for the taking. guest: i got a kick out of that story. what i found interesting is the financial times placed right above that story two perfectly ideal establishment candidates in california, very well-known successful businesswoman, funding their own campaigns. they lost, too. writedn't they "outrageously well-founded moderates led down in california." nobody lives everything they put upo the fact of the matter is, 55 elected members of the house of representatives and 12 new senators are . . flu -- it would probably be me, because i do not th

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dick armey is not a genuine grass-roots tea party person. he is one of these people trying to coopt the movement. host: thank you for the call and do not wait for another year until you call caller: thank you very much guest: what you see is what people in the republican party and the tea party are concerned about. this republican wave was essentially driven by a tea party enthusiasm and the agendas that will confront this new republican majority in the house and in t country generally are not necessarily the same thing. john outlined some very specific things on the tea party agenda. those items get dropped into this huge bucket of government when you get to washington. the speaker is trying to figure out what to do with the debt ceiling at what to do about medicaid and medicare and entitlement spending. suddenly, the discussion is not nearly as clear cut as we need to cut federal spending. republicans will have a lot of trouble staying loyal to that sense that they wanted to change things in washington. host: jim heinz on our tour page --

he previously served as the director of communications for dick armey of texas, and prior to that, he was a director of congressional relations here. he served at the office of national drug control policy and worked with a california representative. please join me in welcoming michael wrigh -- franc. >> welcome to the heritage foundation. this is something we wanted to do not immediately after the election, yet a few days to get all the results to come and for people to form some thoughts about the significance of what happened last tuesday, and then we wanted to invite three folks who from significant perspectives will shed an awful lot of light on what could be a significant election by any historical standard. before introduce them, i want to lay out markers for the discussion that. to the significance of where the tea party has come from. if we did this two years ago, people would say what? a couple things. a party movement. there is very little trust in the major parties. approval and disapproval of the democrat and republican parties were both negative 10. the tea party was 39

most respected way as possible, and ginnie thomas, his wife, was working for the majority leader dick armey in and said the justice was a fan of c-span and he knew why was and watched things and i said i think he's great. why don't you written a letter? i said okay. so i wrote him a letter and i had told him i had admired his courage and by a mine near the path he had taken to be all set lead appointed to the supreme court. and i said it would be an honor to meet you and i gave the letter to jennie and nothing happened in the days went by and all of a sudden i got a call from dorothy in his office and says the justice wants to know if you're free in the next few minutes if you want to popover. and i flew out of the longworth building and i went over and spend probably four hours in the justice chambers and if you haven't read the book, you need to read "my grandfather's son," because of trees is his life from the time his born until he's about to be sworn in on the branch of the supreme court. and the stories that he told me were heartbreaking, but they gave me inspiration that i was on the

in the meantime, from this morning's "washington journal," a discussion with dick armey, the chairmanof freedom works, about the 2010 midterm elections. >> host: we're back with dick armey, the chairman of freedomai works. you probably know that name, part of the tea party movement. i want to begin with the financial times this morn, this headline: outlandish tea party candidates let down republicans at the final hurdle. it says, indeed for the republican party's senate leadership, tuesday night was, in some respects, a failure.ts a never has the house of representatives changed hands without the senate followingged suit, and the tea party movement should take the lion's share ofv the blame. share of the blade. the republicans fell at least four seats short of taking the senate. there were responsible for the book cost of at least three senate seats that were >> guest: well, i got a little kick out of that story. i actually saw it earlier, and what i found interesting is the financial times placed rightou abovend that story how two perfectly ideal establishment candidates in californi

works, a conservative group which is headed by former republican majority leader in the senate dick armeye trying to -- they're trying to really create a network. so you have all the decentralized tea party groups in states trying to build a network so that they can talk to each other and they're hoping that, kyra, making even more of a difference in coming elections than they made in the last one. can you imagine that that? >> i think we can imagine anything after those midterm elections. brianna, thanks. >> reporter: exactly. >> next political up dmat an hour and reminder for the political news, go to cnnpolitics.com. >>> wedding bells soon will be ringing for britain's prince william and his soon to be princess. royal family's biographer talks to us live about the nuptials. >>> first, flashback. november 16th, 1978. the movie version of "sergeant pepp pepper's lonely hearts club band." look at peter. wow. he has no hair now by the way. totally bald. you think with the big names the movie would have done great. sadly, as a viewer said, it was quite possibly the silliest movie ever conce

it's been hijacked by phonies led by dick armey, you're right, sarah palin, jim demint and others whoally just trying to make it, beat the drums for the republican party agenda. here's billy calling from atlanta, georgia. >> caller: how are you doing? >> host: good. compromise, compromise, is that what the president ought to be trying to do? >> caller: i think the question answers itself. maybe it's not so much compromise as it is, we need to start focusing on where we agree instead disagrees i think that's what has gotten this country so polarized right now. >> host: billy, doesn't take two to tango? that's the problem. >> caller: i know. i'm not saying he would be easy but that's where leadership comes in and that's what we need an president obama right now. we need strong leadership to make this happen. >> host: you see, again, i think obama, if anybody, if any modern president has been ready to sit down and talk and honestly genuinely try to compromise, it's barack obama. john boehner and mitch mcconnell, they want 100%. they don't want to compromise. >> caller: been ready to lead

in about an hour, freedomworks with dick armey and his assessment of the elections. later, mitch mcconnell on the gop agenda. on "washington journal" tomorrow morning, we will be joined by somebody from the group, americans for prosperity to talk about their legislative priorities. insley andeak with kns jacobson. > of this year's student cam documentary competition is in full swing. your documentary should include more the one point of view along with c-span programming. upload your video before january 20 s to win the grand prize of more than $5,000. the competition is open to middle and high school student'' grades at 6-12. for how to upload your video, go online to studentcam.org. >> up one of the speakers -- >> good afternoon, my name is david hawkins. this is my first speach for cq roll call. i have a new job as of today. after six years of being the managing editor of the cq weekly magazine, which launched the daily briefing, which you can sign up for for free, which is a rare thing for our company. it is a good thing. i will be editing this briefing and provi

i can see why people like you and dick armey and the cooke brothers do, but the rank and file just boggles my mind. number 2, all of you are aware that the british tea that you were drinking was bought and paid for by china. third, can small government, in such a large diverse country, with so many big businesses buying up smaller ones and the strongest military in the world should be before and by the people? my last question, will the tea party become the tail that wags the dog of the gop? host: thanks. grassroots and trickle-down economy? guest: this is not a radical new idea. john kennedy understood that a rising tide moves all boats. it creates more opportunity, more jobs, and i think that is a formula that will work, unlike what we have been doing with failed stimulus spending and big government regulation and intervention the the market. people believe in the free enterprise system. host: number 2 was british tea paid for by china. guest: i will pass on that. its coat is a good subject to talk about china's overall. -- it's a good subject to talk about china overall. guest: it is no

lunch meeting at the capitol today, where jim ness sum, a congressman in the reagan revolution and dick armey chiefs of staff will be there to talk to them about the dos and don't and the guys that give out the money, appropriations committee, will try to reform that by putting people who pledged no earmarks, against spending. one aide said we want to blow that committee up from within. >> no file-gate, no travel-gate this time around? >> they will try to avoid that. they don't want to become the issue and recognize that's a terrible mistake. >> do you know the total amount of earmarks given out last year? what's the aggregate? >> i can tell you it makes no difference. >> if we eliminated them all, the dent -- i was there 10 years, don't get me wrong, i wanted to limit them as well, at the same time, it has very little impact lowering the overall pressures on the debt, doesn't it? >> it is not the solution, don't be fooled. >> sarah palin lashing out at a "wall street journal" reporter in a facebook post titled do "wall street journal" reporters read the "wall street journal"? what's governor

i can see why people like you and dick armey and the cooke brothers do, but the rank and file just boggles my mind. number 2, all of you are aware that the british tea that you were drinking was bought and paid for by china. ird, can small government, in such a large diverse country, with so many bigusinesses buying up smaller ones and the strongt military in the world should be before and by the people? my last question, will the tea party become the tail that wags the dog of the gop? ho: thanks. grassroots and trickle-down economy? guest: this is not a radal new idea. john kennedy understood that a rising tide moves all boats. it creates more opportunity, more jobs, and i think that is a formula that will work, unlike what we have been doing with failed stimulus spending and big government regulation and intervention the the market. people believe in the free enterprise system. host: number 2 was british tea paid for by china. guest: i will pass on that. its coat is a good subject to talk about china's overall. -- it's a good subject to talk abou china overall. guest: it is not stable fo

this morning and will hear about lessons learned from the 1994 transition from former aides and dick armey. a group of democratic house chairmen say steny hoyer should second the democrat's in command in the next congress. it has been divorced -- supported by barney frank. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> the c-span network provide coverage of american history. it is all available to you on television, radio, and on social media networking sites. find our contact -- content any time. we bring our resources to your community. it is washington your way. the c-span networks, now available in more than 100 million homes. >> landmark supreme court cases on c-span radio. >> there is nothing in the u.s. constitution concerning contraception or abortion. >> roe vs. wade is still considered one of the most controversial decisions. listen to the argument at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span radio, nation wide on the xm channel 132. >> "washington journal" continues. host: stephen wayne is here to talk about presidents and divided governments. guest: it works the same as the regul

dick armey comprise only 123% of our electricity.ou can get renewable projects built in this country because we have a policy response that goes on and off like a light switch that nobody wants to build anything anywhere. we have a banana syndrome. it is equally discriminatory against every sort of the source of energy. it's not just dirty nasty this. it's not call, just natural gas are patrolling our pipelines. we don't want wind off the coast of nantucket. we don't want solar power in the mojave desert that we don't want to build transmission lines to moody's electrons to market. we don't want to build anything. i can tell you that's not happening in china. they are building a coal plant every week. they're building a nuclear but every corner, tournament -- transmission lines here and yet we are not. we have 400 she projects today that have been stalled in litigation. that is about 250,000 jobs that were not created and a ton of investment at a time when our economy is desperately in need of investment. then we have to think about

he previously served for dick armey of texas and prior to that he was the director of congressional relations he sebbed in the office of national drug control policy and worked for william dannon meyer of california. please join me in welcoming my colleague, mike frank. [applause] >> thank you, john. welcome to the heritage foundation for where does tea party go from here? this is something we wanted to do not immediately after the election but give a few days for all the results to come in for people to form some results about the significance of what happened last tuesday. and then we wanted to invite folks who will shed an awful lot of light on this election. before i introduce -- and i wanted to lay out a couple of markers for the discussion that point to the significance of where the tea party had come from. literally if we did this two years ago, people would say tea party what? where'd that come from? now everybody has an opinion about the tea party. first there are two major trusts in the parties. approval, and disapproval of the democratic and republican parties are both negative 10.