you just relapsed back into the kathleen parker racist position. try to get out of this. >> i'm going to try to dig myself out of a hole i'm not sure i'm in, larry. let me just suggest that region of the nature do matter. you're right, you named several states where legislators who got hammered. clearly the misplaced anger about this bill is pretty universal. but what i would suggest is if you look a little deeper, how can a significant chunk of one section of the u.s. be so convinced he's not a citizen and hence not a legitimate president? i would ask anyone rationally watching this show, and your viewers are rational, to try to impute what that view of this president implies to their view of his legislation. he promised to change health care in the campaign. >> you keep using a ridiculous poll from a crazy website. right now you're just waiting carbon dioxide on that one. this is not crazy anger. something you said during the last segment, oh, there's nothing to these death panels. any senator, any politician who votes for this bill without knowi

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trish regan, richard stengel, kathleen parker and john heilemann. that's the show. thanks for watching. see you here next week.

david brooks of "the new york times" and syndicated columnist kathleen parker. i will have a final word on how to know if you are becoming a senior citizen. >> but first, has the recession come to an end? on face the nation. captioning sponsored by cbs "face the nation" with cbs news chief washington correspondent bob schieffer. and now from cbs news in washington, bob schieffer. >> and we begin this morning with larry summers, mr. summers, thank you for joining us, in an abc interview recorded yesterday, treasury secretary geithner told george stephanopoulus the smaller federal deficit is vital to sustaining an economic recovery, he said doing that is going to require what he called hard choices. he was asked directly whether he would rule out new taxes and he said, the country must understand the administration will do in his words what is necessary. >> was he laying the groundwork here for a new round of taxes? >> no, not at all. he was explaining what has been the president's policy, the president recognizes that his first job was to rescue the economy, that

time for the politics fix with columnist kathleen parker and salon.com's editor-in-chief joan walsh.ot sure you're going to argue much. i've never seen a stronger column in the newspapers than what i read this morning when i got up. reason i'm so glad kathleen is joining us is she wrote this column basically back up senator voinovich of ohio saying the republican party which has been pretty well over the last half century as been getting destroyed by the right wring wingers in the south. we've talked about the obsession with the birther thing down in the south and all the rest of the ethnic potential here. here's a quote that really grabbed me. that same rage was on display again in the fall of 2008, but this time, the frenzy was stimulated by a pretty gal with a mocking little wink. sarah palin may not have realized what she was doing. but southerners weaned on harper lee heard the dog whistle. kathleen, heard the dog whistle. is sarah palin a poster girl for racism? yes or no. >> not consciously. >> not consciously. >> i don't think, i certainly don't think she, sarah palin knows a

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