bob franken, syndicated columnist, rich galen and esther arma is here as well.ou. >> i'm a little intimidated. >> you should not be. these are very friendly people. this is a friendly bunch, except bob franking sometimes. >> can we bring our dog? >> rich, how long is obama care going to be fair game for the gop? >> it's going to be fair game for everybody, including democrats. democrats who are in cycle which is to say the ones, especially senators, up for reelection next year or in 2014. everybody's sort of looking back. it's not so much the rollout. that was sort of the attention-getter, the headline. but the bigger problem is as the republican address said, the bigger problem is that the president, for whatever reasons, whether he just didn't understand what the actual rules were going to be or what, did promise a number of times that if you like your health insurance, you can keep it. just yesterday afternoon, i was walking down king street in old alexandria, and two men were talking. and one man said, are you still working? and he said, no, now that i'm on

clinton at the edge as well. >> rich galen, steve elmendorf, thanks, guys, appreciate it. >>> once againsecretary sebelius testifying before the senate finance committee. she said to them end-to-end testing happens daily. a couple hundred items on the punch list of fixes is what they're working on. and an august report identified risks in the healthcare.gov system. early on we heard her outline some of the ways that they are approaching a fix to that. >>> now, besides chris christie, mcauliffe, de blasio, there are some other big results to report this morning. in illinois, the statehouse voted to become the 15th state to allow same-sex marriage. all it needs is the governor's signature. >>> new jersey voters approved raising the minimum wage by $1 to $8.25. >>> it's now legal to possess pot in portland, maine. texas voters rejected a plan to turn the astrodome into a convention center and that probably means it's going to be torn down. >>> and in new york, voters approved a plan that would allow up to seven vegas-style casinos in the state. >>> voters in new jersey and the small seattle

on next, galen in grants berg, wisconsin. republican line. we just heard from your congressman.my main concern is -- during the last election, we hadall the states that had approved voter id or things like that. those states went republican. all the states that obama won were all states that did not have voter id. i heard there was like 12 -- i think it was like 12 million votes were something that was kept in discrepancy. i think it was states in pennsylvania county. i think there was some voter fraud. as i'm hearing some these -- saying that mitt romney and paul ryan were a bunch of liars -- >> host: who do you want to see running? fromr: i like marco rubio florida. i like paul ryan, myself. these people are saying that he is not compassionate and such. i think mitt romney and paul ryan did not capture the voter out there. i will be honest -- i also like mike huckabee. mike huckabee is a born-again christian. he is someone that is trustworthy. that is what i'm looking at. host: thanks a lot for your call. the associated press has an article that we are looking at tonight talki

and from the galen institute, joining us right now, the headline in the wall street journal.ople will be forced to get insurance from their employer that raises the cost to the employer, they pass it along in terms of higher prices to employees. sounds a bit simplistic, but is that the way it works? >> well, stuart, the distortions from this law continue and remember, that president obama said that if 95 to-- 85 to 90% of the american people aren't going to be affected at all by this, even people who work for large companies, who have insurance that they think is not going to be touched by this, are going to be forced to pay higher premiums because of the taxes that both their insurance companies had and their employers have to pay, because of the lifting the limits on lifetime maximums and also, because of this so-called free preventive care, these $5,000 colonoscopies have to be billed in the premium costs and they have to shape the health plan in ways that work for the condition and not for obamacare, it's affecting everybody. stuart: granted the premiums are going to go u