what about e.j.'s analysis? >> i think ana is right, if democrats squander the opportunity with latino voters, it will be a big mistake. i don't think latino voters will support deporting their loved ones. i don't think there will be a swing to the republican party. when the party loses turnout will matter a big deal and i think that if democrats haven't delivered on immigration reform you could see that impact latino immigrant turnout in a way that could have down ramifications and i know democratic operatives are concerned about it and i think if obama doesn't move and get it done and thinks ma2011 is a better time to do it, i think our experience with george w. bush, the longer you wait, the harder it it gets, we'll see. i can't imagine if they lose seats they will come back in 2011 and say, now we will go with immigration reform and get it it done. i think if you imagine a 2012 presidential run in which barack obama's campaign promise in spanish is: this time i mean the promise. [laughter] >> it it will be h

>> i do agree with e.j. i think e.j. is right about the communications failures of the white house.s been confusing for all of the people in the country. let me add about independent voters and if you look at the polls and they're turning against this plan and it's about health care, either, it's about a wide variety of things and especially spending and they're concerned about the country going into big debt and that's one of the things that's driving independents against this plan which would behoove the president and why rahm emanuel and other white house officials want to cut a bipartisan deal because vulnerable democrats are the ones that are driving this process and not the liberal base and not republicans. it's moderate democrats that were driving it and that's a big problem for the white house. the president needs to know the liberals are still driving the bus here. >> he's going to ride to the midterm and he's knot to get a public option, but i want you to respond. the president has olive branches pouring out of the windows of the white house and you have grassley and orrin

i'm joined by george will, e.j. liz cheney, sam donaldson and gwen ifill and i think, george, that gets at the difficulty of this whole what would kennedy debate, what would teddy do debate? he was both a fierce partisan and an ideological partisan an very pragmatic legislator at the time. >> conservatives spend our lives saying there is a reason things are as they are. there are vast forces out there and there's a reason why health care is very difficult to do. newt gingrich has a piece in "the washington post" this morning saying since the second world war only gerald ford and bill clinton had lower poll ratings than barack obama has after seven months. if that is true, it is because the independents are leaving him and more important, the elderly are. in 2008 and everyone in congress knows this number, in 2008, 40% of the votes were cast by voters 50 or older. by 2030 when the baby boomers have all retired, there will be more americans years old or older than there are 18 and under. this is the politics of geront

fallen frank will be e.j. dionne and needs no introduction. e.j.whington post," seni fellow at britting, an author and editor and co-editor of many books and a regular commentator on radio and tv. llowing e.j., anaavarro is a higly regded rublican politica strist. rexford teas is especially in florida and latino politics with a particular emphasis on immigration. ana was the co-chair o john mccain's hispanic adviser council. she was a frequent speaker for john mccain on isss related to the-- relat to latinos and has played a key role in state races florida. and then ruy teixeira is a senior fellow at the century foundation as well as a fellow at the new politics institute and was recently a visiting fellow at boklyn. anti-is published manyooks, analyzing american politics. he is widely quoted in his area of expertise ands made frequent aearances. we have a rock star panelnd we will do it oberstar so we would get into a bit of a debate and discussion and open it up for you want to ask questions. thank you all very much for being here. ru you can tak

e.j., good evening. >> my favorite alumni connection. thank you, keith. >> having long ago dispensed with the notion of a grass roots movement can we now also get rid of the complement that was calling it astroturfing? if a health care giant like united health group is directly organizing health care employees to attend town hall health care events, and antireform rallies, that's not grass roots or astroturf. that's just asphalt. >> you know, if it gets too much attention it could become a tar baby for them. >> yep. >> i think it's not surprising that people -- companies are turning out their employees to oppose something that they think is going to hurt the company. i mean, we talk about powerful, big business because they have real power. i think it would be more significant as this reporting goes on if something about the strategy of disruption and all of that, if that's also connected to these companies, because i think there are a lot of people who are turned off by that kind of activity, that kind of disrupting speaker shouting at

e.j. dionne of "the washington post", great thanks as always. >> great to be with you. thank you. >> a senate committee is now contemplating the insurance company's take on every one of your dollars. if the increase is granted you would be responsible for 35 cents out of every health care dollar in esenls. for contrast, legally casinos can only keep 25 cents out of every gambling dollar and usually they stick to 20. if you think that's armed robbery wait until you hear the back story emerging tonight from the men who showed up armed to the obama health care town hall in phoenix. one of them believes the government manufactured waco and 9/11 to silence armed american citizen militias. new chevy e with an epa estimated 32 miles per gallon. and up to 600 miles between fill ups. it's the most fuel efficient crossover on the highway. better than honda cr-v, toyota rav4 and even the ford escape hybrid. the all new chevy equinox. it's much easier to find money at esurance. great auto insurance rates and lots of discounts! got insurance already? save more with esurance's "switc

e.j. dionne of "the washington post", great thanks as always. >> great to be with you. thank you. >> a senate committee is now contemplating the insurance company's take on every one of your dollars. if the increase is granted you would be responsible for 35 cents out of every health care dollar in esenls. for contrast, legally casinos can only keep 25 cents out of every gambling dollar and usually they stick to 20. if you think that's armed robbery wait until you hear the back story emerging tonight from the men who showed up armed to the obama health care town hall in phoenix. one of them believes the government manufactured waco and 9/11 to silence armed american citizen militias. a mom came into my store. her son's going to college.. he needed a computer. it was kind of like a surprise present. he needs to, you know, write papers and go online. budget was definitely a concern. she was like, "help me." so i'm thinking: new cool thing is the netbook. two pounds, three pounds, 160 gigabyte hard drive. really great battery life. we get the netbook. i said, "bring him ba

the panel including e.j. dijion. a discussion hosted by the center for american progress live at noon eastern here on c- span. earlier today, president obama renominated ben bernanke for a second four-year term to serve as federal -- chairman for the federal reserve. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> what is this renomination of ben bernanke me to the financial markets and the country as a whole? >> it means continuity. ben bernanke expanded the fed balance sheet by over a trillion dollars, many of the dollars funding emergency programs like loans to the commercial paper market, aig, it purchases of mortgage-backed securities. they have to unwind that to maintain confidence. >> one of the news reports said that the obama -- said bernanke meshed well with the obama team. >> bernanke enter the fed as much of ththreea free marketeers alan greenspan. he came out more on the side of the obama administration on things like round my -- recomme

. >> jumping to defense now, linebacker e.j. henderson back on the field after missing the final 12 games of last season because of that foot injury. how important is he to this defense? >> he is critically important. he's obviously not a pro bowl guy like antoine winfield or pat and kevin williams or jared allen, but he's right there. he would be the next guy in terms of the most important guy on defense. he obviously plays middle linebacker, so there is natural leadership requirements there, but more than that e.j. is the guy that takes advantage of pat and kevin williams. he's able to just run free and make a lot of plays, and he's got tremendous instincts and he's a hard hitter. he's a guy that steps up and makes plays. he's not just someone that will make tackles. he's going to step up and make plays. he's really an important part of this vikings defense. >> sean jenson of the pioneer press, appreciate it. >> it was fun, thank you. >> straight ahead, it's in the a reality show. it's buffalo bills camp. that's right. that's

it would hurt them, but they get e.j. henderson, their middle linebacker back this year. they feel good about their defense. they feel even better about their offense regardless of who is under center. >> with so much hype surrounding the brett favre situation this off season, the focus has been more on what they could have had rather than what they actually do have. how is this team approaching this season now? >> you know, maybe they're just good actors. that could be appropriate because of the soap opera that took place this summer. just an episode where there was main character like brett. i think there were some people kind of in the organization that truly were surprised when brett decided not to play. as far as the players go, hey, they look at what happened last year. they went and won the division with tarvaris jackson and gus frerotte. i think they feel very good that jackson will be better. he's got another year under his belt. they really like sage rosenfels, and oh by the way, they

e.j., ticker for e-house china. chinese real estate firm. stock is up 2% to outperform from neutral. oppenheim oppenheimer. buy this bay boy weakness. it is at a billion dollar market cap. they think it is headed to $27 per. plenty of upside left in that one. then also this is a confusing stock. phillips van hughesen. some people don't know if it is retail. make all kinds of shirts. they sell the labels for whoever wants it done. russell 1 thousand. 3% higher. overweight rated at jpmorgan. earnings coming out next week. bullish call ahead of earnings. lastly, they make labels at office supplies, pens, you name it. avery dennison, strong stock in a weak market. jpmarg an with the upgrade. overweight from neutral and avery dennison up about $28 a share. back to you. >> thank you very much, matt nesto. let's get to john harwood with the "harwood file." roll the animation. >> hey, mark. look, i want to bring a little bit of reality to this health care debate that we have all seen playing out on our television screens over the last couple of week

e.j. dionne is one of the panelists. live coverage begins at noon eastern. later in the day, we will get an update on the presidential election in afghanistan that was held last week. official results have yet to be released. a new report links the growth of medical costs with adverse economic conditions. next, we will hear from an economist with the rand corp. who talks about how labor costs, employment, and productivity are being affected. this is about 40 minutes. >> today's briefing is the second in a two-part red series on health care costs. it is very timely. it is only part of a boarder -- of a larger body of research. many people know about the research that the red corp. does and the variety of areas -- that the rand corp. does and the variety of areas. many articles are germane to the issues that will be considered again this fall. as you know, for the past two decades, the growth in health care costs has outpaced the growth in the gross domestic product. in today's briefing, you will hear about a first of its kind steady that linked the rapid grow

then we have e.j. dionne who really needs no introduction. he is a senior fellow at brookings and a professor at georgetown. he is the author, editor, and co-editor of many books. then we have on the navarro -- we have an navarro -- we have ana navarro. she was most recently national co-chair of john mccain's hispanic advisory council. she was a frequent speaker for john mccain on issues related to latinos. she also played a key role as a strategist in several local and state races in florida we have read his europe -- we have ruy tashira. -- ruy teixeira. we have a rock star panel. we will ask some questions, get into a bit of debate and discussion, and then we will open it up to you for questions. take it away. >> thank you, andy. the term cultural wars as applied to u.s. politics goes back to 1991 when it was popularized. the argument was that, no and going forward, politics in the united states would be polarized between warring cultural camps around issues like guns, abortion, gays, gender issues and so on. that would be the fulcrum of p

e.j., how about you? >> sort of.ndaries that we weren't comfortable at ndarwh what? k what kind of stuff? >> it was mainly discipline, stuff like that. you know, we didn't figure that discipline was something that our parents should take care of. and we always didn't see eye to eye with that. my mom and my dad didn't see eye to eye on that. so that would cause some tension. >> must be weird, i would think, when your parent is affectionate with some other person in front of you. >> that isn't your mother. >> justin, did you -- who had to deal with that? did you, justin? >> no, i did not. >> no. >> raise your hand if you did, just because there's so many. >> bobby. >> what was that like? >> both my parents were affectionate in front of us. and you have to get over it, because your parents are going to be affectionate with the other -- their partner that they're with now. >> yeah. >> and you've just got to get used to it. >> you're all talking about how you needed to be more mature. needed to be more mature. but at the