>> quote, not intended to be a factual statement, which is what the spokesman for arizona senator jon kyl said after he declared on the floor that upwards of 90% of what planned parenthood does is abortions. the correct number is 3%. >> rich? >> best spin is president obama blaming republican policies for the weak economy after he got whatever he wanted for two years. >> yeah, and the other spin to follow on that was to blame the republicans for failing to arrive at a debt reduction agreement when in fact they had an agreement on thursday night and he walked away from it on friday morning. >> best spin of the year, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke. also bernanke's decision to hold press conferences. it worked. both the press and the public liked the innovation of the fed chairman holding press conferences. okay. the most overrated, pat? >> the most overrated, john, i think is the threat from iran. we're getting all this hype from the neokinds and others. we have to go to war to save ourselves when iran represents no threat whatsoever to the greatest super power in history. >> texas g

>> jon kyl? >> good afternoon.i am here to speak against the installation of parking meters in my neighborhood, as per the 17th consultant parking management plan. i live on the 3200 block of 18th street, between fall some and charlotte. -- full some -- folsome and charlotte. parking has always been a bit of a challenge, but it is not impossible. it all works out and we can coexist. this plan will lot ease the situation for the residents at all and it will place a greater burden on us through meter rates and finds that will come from the inevitable for getting to feed the meters. this plan does not create any additional parking spaces. but it will increase competition for those parking spaces. the initial plan calls for a low rate meters, 25 cents per hour, with no time limit and are payable in advance. this will then buy computer usage into the neighborhood. as it is also noted, this neighborhood is richly served by transit. so, this plan will only make it worse, residents. provisions for the residents are inadequ

jazz is struggling to find new audiences, and that is all the more reason, say its supporters, the jon kylltrane's house tra should be turned into a cultural center. >> we should restore it so that people can come and see the importance of what happened here. >> now to another celebrated musician who died today at the age of 73. during at the james -- etta james' long career, she won six grammys. we look back on her life. last, my love has come a long. >> etta james and singing "at last." more than any other, it became her song. it was sung by beyonce at president obama's inauguration. her own life too was like a song, but and often sad and bitter one. she spent decades battling heroin addiction and in and out of jail. yet, she never stopped singing, even as crossover pop success elude her. >> she did what she wanted to do. she was a very strong person. i do not think anybody could have said, well maybe we could do -- and if you did -- she did at last because she wanted to sing it. she did not do it because someone suggested it. she was her own person. >> she had been effectively abandoned

posts the notables among the three proper senator bill nelson the democrat from nebraska and senator jon kyl the republican from arizona the most powerful guys the k. street lobbying firms are now aggressively hoping that these people these twenty five retiring members of congress walk through the revolving doors here's a quote as a retiring class this is a very valuable class a lot of these members are marketable and will be welcomed by k. street with open arms this is what i've been adler mccormack group had to say to lobby for the lobbyists are right now holding mock drafts like like drafting. athletes and things only in this case it's in drafting politicians are retiring lawmakers can make up to a million and a half bucks a year lobbying of the three hundred fifty to retire. congress member since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine percent have gone on to become lobbyists many members of congress are tired and then they're quick to say oh mary become a lobbyist i'm not going to go over to the outside of washington politics for example former connecticut senator chris dodd twenty lefti