i've eaten meals with rush limbaugh. he supported an event that the independent women's forum did, in support of condoleezza rice. and who i think is an absolutely amazing woman. she happens to be african-american. in the speech she gave at the independent women's forum in connection with women's rights and the founding of our nation she also said that the original sin was slavery and who would have thought that given the founding of our nation that she would be secretary of state. >> again, rush limbaugh helping out with a dinner for condoleezza rice does not, i mean, again, that's great for that one incident but to do this sort of thing day after day and say certain people need to be wiped out -- >> no, no. i'm not defending him. what i'm saying is i am perplexed because this is a statement that she made and it is very perplexing to me. >> what's not perplexing is his bigotry. i think rush limbaugh is trying to foment a bigotaucracy. that has no place in american civil discourse and only foemts the dissent that leads t

and fox and rush limbaugh and all these people who have their own agendas, their agenda is not what'suntry, it's getting eyeballs and listeners and making money, but they really have tied the hands of the republican party, and the republican party leaders have allowed their hands to be tied. >> david, you know washington, you know the support system that exists for people there on each side of the aisle. what happens to david frum in washington? we see him losing one position today. where does he have to turn to for a future? >> well, he's written books in the past, i'm sure he'll write books again. he has plenty of friends around town. but bruce bartlett who worked for another conservative think tank a few years ago was fired in 2005 for writing a book that was, you know, partly critical of george w. bush and his presidency. and he put up a blog today saying, you know what? there isn't a lot of room in this town these days for people like david and me. >> now, in pure political terms, should democrats look at this today and think, great. they are, the republicans are just killing the

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. >>> conservative radio host rush limbaugh is pulling punches and he's aiming squarely at an 11-year-oldt was one of the pictures of the week. remember this? marcelas owens was the young boy standing next to president obama when mr. obama signed the landmark health care reform bill. owens' mother died after losing her health insurance, but his story became a punch line for conservative hosts, including limbaugh. >> i would also say this to marcelas owens. well, your mom would have still died because obama care doesn't kick in until 2014 if they sign it this year. >> now, marcelas says he's taking the attacks from limbaugh in stride. he says his mother taught him that everyone has an opinion but it doesn't necessarily make them right. >> it's amazing. the one who's going to bring civility to the argument is an 11-year-old? maybe that's what we need right now. certainly also a contentious decision that could put the end to diversity in one city's public schools. this one got a little ugly as well. that story is coming up just ahead. >>> usually we pick a new hero to highlight here on cnn e

we start with rush limbaugh. mr. limbaugh went on the air and said, trust me.ath panel. that's all he said. he offered no proof. he offered no evidence. he didn't even quote anybody. i don't know about you, but if rush limbaugh asks me to trust him, i immediately check to see if my wallet is still in my back pocket. there is no death panel. this brings me to the reaction of glenn beck. mr. beck, while saying what i believed were sincere good wishes to both me and my father, then immediately turned around and said i didn't understand about the death panels, that what sarah palin was talking about was not these end of life discussions, not what we have called life panels, but, in fact, something else. he is, of course, entirely wrong. he has no earthly clue what he's talking about. he presented no evidence. the only evidence he has ever presented as to the supposed existence of these so-called death panels is to quote sarah palin. and sarah palin's spokesman admitted that what she was talking about was a proposal made by congressman blumenauer of oregon to establ

>> objectively what you and rush limbaugh and i do for a living is the same thing. we're in the business of attracting an audience and get them to listen to as many commercials as possible. it is intertanment in that sense. what concerns me is what rush and the legion of rush wannabes who are dominating this conservative conversation are doing to attract that audience. three things. number one is the potty mouth. i don't think you should say bastards on the radio. i'm embarrassed just quoting rush on my show because my mom and dad are watching. now there are words coming out the dashboard of the suv that soccer mom does not want the munchkins parding back. then there's the hate speech. how can you say that barack the magic negro is not hate speech? that's not the biggest problem. you know how they say high blood pressure is the silent killer? i believe what is most dangerous is what's right below the surface of talk radio and it is a deliberate overstatement for the purpose of rising above the cofany. as the president was pursuing health care reform, rush limbaugh s

ended up apologizing to limbaugh.n tell those that shouted racial slurs at black lawmakers this weekend and rejected the notion that its association with the tea party is dangerous. at its core it's about shared conservative values and limited government and lower taxes and individual freedom. some republicans say the real danger is not saying this loudly enough. >> good government in america. >> reporter: running for congress in arkansas. >> i'm proposing small town every day american principles i've got an overwhelmingly positive response from republicans and tea partiers. >> reporter: smith is one of some 30 african-american republicans running for congress, one of the biggest rosters ever. something says smith that if more widely known would help drown out any fringe element that tries to associate itself with conservatives. mcallister, who is a popular tea party speaker says the real danger is in not discouraging these fringe elements. when they see someone using the movements to further raise the agen agenda, th

a shirtless rush limbaugh zip lining through the rain forest.aid. [ laughter ] yeah. pro, the bill will now require premium rebates for enrollees from insurers with high administrative expenditures and require public disclosure of percent of premiums applied to overhead costs. con, huh? [ laughter and applause ] my head hurts on that one. let's move on. pro, c-span enjoyed its highest ratings in years sunday night. the con, 12 people watched. [ laughter and applause ] good for them. let's look at the pro. today, joe biden called health care reform a "big f'ing deal." con, he said the same thing about the new coors light vented wide-mouth can. [ laughter and applause ] finally, pro, passage of the bill represents a major political victory for president obama. [ cheers and applause ] con, he's still eating it in his march madness bracket. [ laughter ] there you go, everybody. that's the "pros and cons." we'll be back with more "late night," come on back. ♪ pros and cons pros and cons pros and cons pros and cons ♪ [ cheers and applause ] ♪ anncr vo

rush limbaugh on his show today.they must, my friends, be hounded out of office. every democrat that voted for this needs to know safe district or not they are going to be exposed and hassled and chased from office. we need to defeat these bastards. we need to wipe them out. >> richard, who wins politically based on the vote last night in the house looking toward november? >> well, i think a lot depends on where you think november is going to be fought. if it's about base turnout, the anger you heard from rush is more helpful -- not just helpful to rush limbaugh and his audience it gets the base motiva motivated. the conservatives have done a good job of doing that. people on the left have found a reason to believe again and a reason to go out there and vote. they feel like 2008 meant something. and also pthey are rallied up b rhetoric from the conservatives. where this debate may get fought is on independents. not on soft republicans but on the real independents who may be turned off by the anger looking for somethi

roi began the book with a quote most people remember rush limbaugh in turn and help to set the tone we have seen and said i hope he fails. okay. after jfk won the election, john wayne committed conservative said i did not vote for him but he is my president and i hope the does a good job. how do we fall from that idea? headed we convince ourselves that that is eight / statement? that is what puts patriotism over partisanship and that is where it should be and an important reminder if we lost sight of politics to our great detriment. >> this is the issue i found fascinating the consequences and we suggested there were some differences in terms of consequences for democrats or republicans. you say "liberals a one to ignore the populist anger of the two parties in town hall do so at their own political peril producing just they are more grave than republicans but they play a dangerous game in benefiting from all of the tanker in the short term but tapped into something they cannot control it is far beyond street theater that intentionally stirs decrease the pot that ultimately is the inci

rush limbaugh couldn't resist this one.o burn has an amendment to not pay for viagra for sex offenders. what's great about that is that gets a democrat on the record voting for viagra to sex offenders. there are all kinds of amendments like that and the senate republicans are going to tie these guys in knots. >> you walk those halls. is that what's happening? >> giving away the not so secret strategy. they're really candid about it, even before rush limbaugh outed them. as we speak, they're voting, they even, to begin with, have 23 amendments they expect it to take eight hours. there is no expectation that any of these amendments will pass. most of them are really geared at making these democrats take very tough political votes, particularly the vulnerable democrats. >> it's a teachable moment. >> a teachable moment? >> to borrow a phrase from the president. >> do we have some beer here? >> when you hear the campaign ad, when the election rolls around and he even voted to give viagra to rapists. it's a political trick. ever

you don't need them. >> look, ed, nobody is going on rush limbaugh's show.e is going on glenn beck's show. there are certain shows where there are people who haven't totally made up their mind that watch fox news. there's an effort to try and communicate with them. let me go to your point with respect to the words of incitement. what we saw in the last couple days here was a very ugly face in terms of the expressions of violence, of the words that were thrown around. what was even worse than the fact it was happening outside the capitol was that certain members of congress who should have known better and should be leading by example exhibited similar behaviors inside the chamber. when we had a member -- >> they apologized for that, chris. the republicans apologized for it. they didn't mean to say that. >> right. right. that's why within a couple hours, as you may have heard, that same member who said "baby killer" started a facebook page to raise money. to raise cash off his statement. and this is what we're dealing with. we're dealing with people who are p

rush limbaugh said your support of mccain over hayworth is tone deaf and warns that you're risking yourire political career. anyway. here is what mccain said. this is what he said. there will be no cooperation for the rest of the year. they have poisoned the well in what they've done and how they've done it. why would he say no cooperation? what if president obama proposed the bill he liked next week? he would not cooperate? >> well, clearly there are things that we like. >> larry: then why make that kind of statement? >> i'm not going to speak for senator mccain. but clearly those people who are watching what is happening in washington recognize that the reason i would support senator mccain is not just because he is a national hero and someone who people around the country feel is a spokesman for our party, a leader of our party, but he is also a lion in the senate. he is one of those guy who is able to move bodies. >> larry: doesn't want to cooperate the rest of the year. >> when the president executes the nuclear option and says we're going to change the way democracy has been run o

it is getting to the point where rush limbaugh said that he wanted this government to fail.ven the politicians, a lot of them, when they blame government who do you trust more? government cannot handle health care, that is one example. we are supposed to trust and insurance company more than government? come on, they are government. host: independent line, nebraska. good morning. who is the problem? caller: we are the problem. and thougyou know? we are the ones that determine what the government does. host: i am fixing the problem the peace in "newsweek" talks a lot about sacrifice and that our leaders are paralyzed at the thought of asking constituents to make short-term sacrifices for long-term rewards. what kind of sacrifices should you and others be making out there? caller: taking into consideration that we need to raise taxes and that by doing so we can maybe take the burden off of the next generation. put everything on the table and have a serious discussion about what we can do to save our country. it is like sitting on the outside and watching a train wreck. everyon

people from george to rush limbaugh. in the last years he argued that the civil rights act of 64, the boat team rights act the 65, close were building blocks. those were the first ups to clear away the debris of segregation. they should make it possible now to move on to other things. what other things? he talked about the wide gap between rich emcor and said we cannot solve our problems unless we remake what he called the architecture of american society. people like bill buckley called this like keying this kindergarten socialism. it was not that but it was a deep attack on the materialism which is associated with american capitalism. it was a deep attack on the military's them which had characterized their country and lead to death after death after death of people that never should have been in harm's way. two leann once wrote a peace i have quoted in here somewhere but i cannot remember which page that said king "i have a dream" speech had been so misinterpreted because king said might dream is deeply rooted in the

pictures which were people who have lost their lives because of health care, sad stories, which rush limbaughthers are calling sob stories, and their pictures were these angry protesters hurling expletives. even those folks who may or may not have been the slurs, the vast majority of people had signs like communism, socialism. they were talking to speaker pelosi and shouting down her. people in peoria feel that. those pictures have meaning. and they want progress. now, one quick thing. going forward, and david from said this, a bush speechwriter, the republican party should distance themselves from these people. it was their waterloo to be associated like this. instead of trying to when you're scored on in football instead of trying to score your own touchdown you try and take seven points off the board. that's what they're trying to do and it ain't going to work. >> in fact, here's part of david from's quote. armstrong, we'll get your reaction. he said we followed the most radical voices in the party and the movement and they led us to abject and irreversible defeat. >> listen, i've got to t

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. >> larry: mark hill, someone said that rush limbaugh liked congressman massa yesterday and doesn'tlike him today. do you think he's a darling of the right wing? >> he will be for another few days. republicans don't have feelings, they have interests, so they're going to use this very opportune stickily. we see them become the front of the newspaper for a few weeks. this is what happens in the political season. right now republicans are about obstructing progress. they'll do anything to make that happen. >> ben, is this damaging to democrats? >> i think it's damaging to everyone. a guest on your show that you've had a number of times, the very famous author linda fairstein who has a fabulous book out, "the hell gate," she says the majority of these sex crimes -- not the majority, but a large number of these sex crime allegations are made up, they're baloney. once somebody gets smeared with that, how do you disprove that? one guy says, he touched me inappropriately, how do you disprove that? that's very sad that it's going to have a part in wrecking the career of this man who served

in fact, rush limbaugh even got treated there and said how great it was before he found out that it was state-run health care. to follow that up, larry, if government-run health care is so bad, then why do we give it to our veterans and have given to them since world war i? are we screwing the veterans over? it should be good enough for us. >> larry: think we'll get a health care bill soon? >> i don't know. with the polarization of these two parties, i doubt if anything can be accomplished there, because like i said, they put their parties in front of the country. by the way, larry, i need to do something right now. i need -- my wife is still down in the baja, she's at a neighbor five miles away watching television. so hi,teri. i love you. be home in two weeks when i'm done battling the media. thank you, larry. >> larry: you don't have to say thanks. i didn't know you were doing it. from our facebook page james wants to know what is our most important issue today as far as you're concerned politically? >> what's the most important issue to me today politically? getting rid of the democr

. >> >> greta: rush limbaugh still on fire. >> obama is now going to use his deceit and his propagandaills to claim that the dire problems from his plan have not been realized. he's going to go out starting tomorrow, in iowa city, and all next week when he goes out to sell this embarrassing piece of legislation. he's going to say, where are all the [ unintelligible ] >> greta: najibullah joins us live. good evening. -- newt gingrich joins us live. why does the president now have to sell it? >> because they've lost their mine. -- their minds. the country cares about jobs, economy, the deficit. 79% of the country yesterday said they think the economy could collapse. the country would like the president and washington to get on to something which relates to their daily lives. but the president has decided and his team has decided that they have to go out and they have to win the argument on health care. i don't think they can win this argument. i think when people start looking at the underlying details. when you realize that the mayo clinic in arizona will no longer take medicare. when y

what does rush limbaugh do for a living?k at lunchtime. she's perfect for that. >> larry: why do you think mccain -- he didn't vet her well, right? >> no. that's so typical of mccain, but that's always who mccain was. reckless. how many planes did he crash? what? he crashed a number of planes. >> larry: you mean in training and finally in war? >> i'm not counting the one that was shot down, although i think people say that he -- i'm not going to speak out about that because i don't know my facts well enough, but i do know that he crashed more than most people do and get to keep flying. anyone who knows him has always said, that is who he is. he is a riverboat gambler, he is reckless, fly by the seat of his pants and the idea that he would someone he didn't know anything about without any vetting when he just heard her name a couple days before, i think, is absolutely consistent with his character. >> larry: did you read "game change"? >> i read about it. >> larry: it's a heck of a book. they claim that lieberman was always h

rush limbaugh criticized me because i wouldn't call president obama a socialist. okay?o he mocked me for not doing that when does talk radio tip from being the paul revere, warning, hey, this is coming to overstating the case? >> i think when it becomes bomb bassing. when things are said, as you said just earlier in the last segment, when things become so big that you have lost the whole story in the middle. and i haven't gotten there. i don't think talk radio has gotten there sen -- generically. i think there are those on talk radio who have definitely gotten there. >> bill: what do you say mike gallagher. >> i'm going to say you ain't seen nothing yet, buddy. >> bill: am i a pal. >> pal to john, too. john comes from broadcasting iconic family. i have been at this for the better part of three decades. i have never seen the american people as engaged and fired up and energized. there is a reason. talk radio is the place they are coming, bill, they know this encompasses everything, bill. this encompasses liberty for the first time. we haven't started. you want to hold ba

rush limbaugh inciting his list listeners. when we do ubetter watch out. sounds a little bit like a threat isuppose. maybe it's political. other conservatives have tried to distance themselves from what many view as the fringe in this movement. >> this tea party movement is largely novices, relatively politically unsophisticated people and as a result sometimes their rhetoric is raw and angry and that's the downside. >> the downside, indeed. and the numbers show that republicans as much as they might like cannot ignore these guys because, for the most part, they are republicans. nearly 3/4 of the tea partiers identified themselves as members of the gop or at least leaning that way according to the latest quinnipiac poll and at the end the day, elections, as you and i both know, are about votes, although really it's about money, but we'd say boots votes. with that in mind, it does seem some republicans are more than willing to bow to fringe tea partiers, because, hey, racists and nazis vote too. former congressman charlie bass running for his old seat in ne

limb by a calm -- limbaugh said, i would say this to the boy, well, your mother would have died anyway because obamacare doesn't kick in until 2014. fox news came in a close second with a column entitled, "desperate dens cling to human kiddy shield." perhaps the only accurate word was desperation. but she used it to describe the wrong party. in all my years of public service i can't remember the last time i saw such a cheap and disgraceful campaign. republican determination to derail reform at any cost is reprehensible and i cannot find words to describe how shameful i think it is to direct at an 11-year-old boy who lost his mother. on my way to work this morning i saw a group of teabaggers. and i'm happy they'll be in washington to witness congress pass the historic health care bill tomorrow. when i got to the office i did a little research on my own and found the website of a teabagger group called the 912 project. which includes a page which they call the nine principles. number seven reads, i work hard for what i have and i won't share it with who i want to. government cannot force

petulant and erratic and the more they can do that to any republican leader they'll do it to rush limbaugh, as well they want to do that because they want the. public to see led by the republican party. i think, chris, the biggest story in politics route now in the wake of health care is the white house killicalculation fo rest of the year. do they things substantively and politically to try to build bipartisan cooperation or what joan was suggesting. ram things through democratic-only majority. on education, on financial reform on economic development. they could make the choice, rerunning the choice they faced in the beginning of the administration and it went the other way. went with the all-democratic -- to go for republicans. >> by the way to correct you, joan didn't say -- she notes that big works project, jobs bills, are very hard for republicans not to join onto. >> no but also said. >> love to appropriate just as much as the democrats. >> and also loved to ram things through. >> joan. >> ram things through eye shouldn't have said that because that's really a republican talking poi

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when you think about it is it glen beck or rush limbaugh. >> good lord.e it right now? >> well, it's certainly not glen beck or rush limbaugh. i think it is john boehner or john mccain. but i think the question is the right question. that is, where is the republican opposition going. i like to make the point on health care, just because the democrats pass their bill does not republican good ideas went away. we're beginning to see all kinds of serious problems with this health care bill. corporations saying look, we're no longer going to get one of the subsidies we used to get or one of the support payments we used to get to provide health care to retirees. that requires them to immediately disclose that loss. they're doing that, and mr. waxman is attacking them for simply complying with the law. i think the answer is republicans have to stay positive have, to continue to say we think there are things about this bill that will not work and we have solutions and we have solutions for health care that will give you choice and options and actually control cos

when rush limbaugh said he wanted president obama to fail he was intelligently explaining his own interestsat he omitted to say but what is equally frue is that he also wanted republicans to fail. if republicans were to succeed, if they governed successfully in office, and negotiated attractive compromises out of office, rush's listeners would get less angry and if they're less angry, they listen to the radio less and hear fewer ads about slumber -- sleep number beds. so today's defeat for free market economy and republican values is a huge win for the conservative entertainment industry. their listeners and viewers will now be even more enraged, even more frustrated, even more dispointed in everybody except the responsibility-free talkers on radio and television. for them it's a mission accomplished. for the cause they purport to represent, it's waterloo. ours. this is a very good self-reflective view of what happened yesterday. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. jones from north carolina. without objection, recognized for five minu

people from george will to rush limbaugh.his last years he argued that the civil rights act of 1964, the voting rights act of '65 -- those things are the end of the civil rights movement. those were building blocks. those were the first steps to clear away the debris of segregation. they were -- they should make it possible now to move on to other things. what other things? he talked about the wide gap between rich and poor. he said we cannot solve our problems unless we remake what he called the architecture of american society. people like bill buckley called this king's kindergarten of socialism. well, it wasn't that. but it was -- it was a deep attack on the materialism, which was associated with american capitalism. it was a deep attack on the militaritism which he characterized our country and led to death after death after death of people that should never have been in harm's way. julian once wrote a piece which i quoted in here somewhere but i can't remember on what page in which he said king's "i have a dream" speech

. >> reporter: the provocative platform rush limbaugh commands can add fuel to the fire. >> we need to defeat these bastards. we need to wipe them out. we need to chase them out of town. >> reporter: political columnist and author john avlon. >> i think the extreme spiel empowered the center, the moderate majority of americans feel embattled. the extremes feel like they have powerful television shows and political parties who's got their back. >> in fairness to the president, what was he referring to -- >> reporter: republican john mccain says disagreements over issues like higher taxes, medicare cuts and bigger government spending is one thing. but behavior is another. >> obviously all of us condemn it, but there is a lot of passion out there and there is a lot of anger because people feel that they are disconnected from the people they send to washington to represent them. >> reporter: and the republicans i talk to, meredith, say that is why they are offering amendments, proposed changes to the legislation that they believe reflect some of the concern that is out there among their ba

unfortunate get on the readers sometimes and rush limbaugh is on too many stations i can't avoid him. i think this is pointless to have everybody just a drill daily up on the irrationality of the extremes. brainwashing really can be effective. i'm worried about it. so modest comments. let me stop. >> just a quick comment. i think there's a lot of -- people don't turn on television anymore i think to learn. they turn onto a their views reinforced because that so many of these shows are aligned. your very thoughtful, not very many forms of thoughtful disposition or discussion of the issues. and one of these days perhaps the leaders of both national parties and leaders in the house and senate and a bipartisan's way was i let us least agree to be civil to a debate. there's not much stability. although if you look back at the housework debates in the 200 year history of our country, there was a lot of incivility way back then. but it's no different now because it is translated into a national environment, and we've become very, very partisan in that regard. i think a great place to start w

"rush limbaugh has much to do with the vitriol. now there are thousands of those voices on the right." guest: i get so much stuff across my desk from the internet. so much of it is not true, just sent out across the way. look, there are no filters anymore. 30 years ago, there were filters. you may not have liked walter cronkite or the news media, but there were filters or a certain responsibility level, but there is none today. the internet and the news media have no shame. guest: we both right for various political periodicals. i will get calls after writing something about disinformation, they want me to send them the article because they have all of these people that tell me they are absolutely right and they want information on the other side. guest: john, republican mind -- host: john, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. it is not that early to be calling, i have been out since 5:00. guest: more power to you, you are in the minority i am afraid. [laughter] caller: my wife and i are republicans, but we have alm

to see half of our country basically calling for obama's neck and went to see him fail and rush limbaughresident fail and all of the republicans' so-called leaders not disputing that, that gives the terrorists a lot more leverage because they see us divided. in a big way, osama bin laden has already succeeded in this plan. he spent only a million dollars bringing down two huge buildings and he ended up breaking our economy eventually and dividing this country in half and while we fight each other they are laughing their butts off at us house the but we are that we are fighting over political differences and not unify. host: randy, your comments on nuclear weapons policy -- anything additional? caller: what i was saying about nuclear-weapons, regardless of what he will do about nuclear- weapons, we are not unified behind our president. the second point i wanted to make about the media in general is that i know that people, if they have political leaning one way or the other, they see the media being against them but the media in general usually point to the microphone at whatever voice is

we're talking rush limbaugh. we're talking glenn beck.e said on air america. i could talk about what people have said on other networks, some very, very harsh things about -- again, i'm not saying -- >> but in terms of the larger issue today, i do think that the civilizing advances of our time, and i'm talking about civil rights movement, women's right movement, civil rights movement, equality, social justice, ending child labor, the republican party in almost every case has opposed those reforms. >> i thought it was southern democrats that opposed civil right in the 1960s. i thought -- >> i'm talking about late in the game. who was opposed to the civil rights act? who was opposed to the civil rights act? i'm talking about the major legislation. >> southern democrats were. southern democrats were. >> but it was the democrats who passed it. >> no, democrats who mainly opposed it, too. >> let us -- come to this moment. >> i'm not being feisty. can we just let americans know, we like each other a lot. okay. >> i think we like each other, but

tell the rush limbaugh's that you followed so closely, not call the president hitler -- give him a chance what you did on the floor calling stupak baby killer -- this is not good for our country. guest: we are sorry about the loss on your husband and we are glad you have the coverage you need to take care of the chemotherapy that your husband needed. let me remind you, medicare and social security was passed, not just by democrats, but with republican support. health care affects 1/6 of our economy and the majority of the american people's opinions were ignored. it was not that they did not want reform were covered expansion. they did not want this plan. they read it. all 2800 pages. at the end of the day, they said, this is not for us. i wonder if spending this much money begins to affect innovation in the future. i want to make sure the next generation has the same choices of the treatment that your husband had. the truth is, if we drive innovation out of the united states, we are not going to have the next chemotherapy drug, the next non-invasive devices. we will have designed health c

and a whole host of democrats -- but the only place you see it on fox or hear it on rush limbaugh.k some of your callers don't even realize that reconciliation is the nuclear option because you are not doing a good job pointing that out. i would say the false of rage over senator bunning is ridiculous. everybody knows it was going to be extended. i give him a pat on the back for pointing out that we are continuing to just add on to this horrible debt on our children and grandchildren. like he said, if you cannot find $10 billion to pay for something everybody agrees on, how can you find money for anything? police tried to play those -- and senator byrd, who even came up with reconciliation, said to push this bill throu'h without any co-sponsors or bipartisanship would be wrong. we have the far left progressive movement inside the democratic party pushing this. host: on your point, senator orrin hatch rights of this morning, the republican senator from utah in " the washington post" -- a health reform tactic that degrades democracy. he quotes senator robert byrd, democrat, who came

option is just dragged through the mud because of all the medium mccarthyisms, by the rights of rush limbaugh and fox news. if we could go ahead and get a single payer, it would bring the costs down for everybody. on one second thought, i have a programming thing for you. why don't we have van jones debate glen beckon television? that would be great over the easter holidays for an hour. host: if both would participate, who knows. but going back to the original -- you say most people want single payer. how did you come to that conclusion? caller: by talking to people that i see going to the health centers at the hospitals, people who are employed. everybody's just tired of how much money they're spending for health care. some people, the out-of-pocket costs, medicines are beyond their capabilities of getting or, you know, can they pay rent, pay your mortgage, your car note? these situations truly exist, as they say. 4,500 americans die every year because of lack of health care. our competitiveness throughout the world is suffering because of health care. host: if you don't mind me asking, what

conservative radio host rush limbaugh urnled listeners to call the u.s.ital. >> i'm urging everybody to call and ramp it up, the capitol switchboard number. ramp up the pressure. >> president obama is trying to get house democrats on board. the house on the senate's health care bill this week, democratic leaders are considering a maneuver to pass a bill without directly voting on it. it would allow the lawmakers to vote on proposed changes to the senate bill instead of the entire thing. >>> arizona state university wanted everybody to know that they rank right up there with some of the big, big names so it put up two billboards, but left off the word "the." one of top 100 universities in the world. now asu says hey, the slogan is supposed to be quick and snappy like a newspaper headline. >> i think it's hilarious the top university can leave out the word "the" in their sign. >> i don't know what criteria they use for the top 100. >> asu did change one of the billboards. they said the sign was the wrong color anyway. ♪ >>> i could understand that "the" wou

spokesperson glen beck, rush limbaugh and michelle. they are simply selfish and greedy and indifferent and they don't seem to care about helping anyone in need. i should note that when marcelis heard what these three said about him, he responded by saying, my mother always taught me that they can have their own opinion. it doesn't mean they're right. when an 11-year-old outshines and outclasses your party's three top mouthpieces, it might be time to look for some replacement. when i vote for health care are he form tomorrow i'll dedicate it to marcelis owens and the memory of his mom and if i had to write my seventh principle i think i'd use one of my favorite quotes from the book of james in the bible. quote, suppose a brother or a sister is in rags with not enough food for the day and one of you says, good luck to you, help your -- keep yourselves warm and have plenty to eat, but does nothing to supply their bodily needs, what is the good of that? so, with faith, if it does not lead to action it is in itself a lightless thing, end qu

to see half of our country basically calling for obama's neck and went to see him fail and rush limbaugh and all of the republicans' so-called leaders not disputing that, that gives the terrorists a lot more leverage because they see us divided. in a big way, osama bin laden has already succeeded in this plan. he spent only a million dollars bringing down two huge buildings and he ended up breaking our economy eventually and dividing this country in half and while we fight each other they are laughing their butts off at us house the but we are that we are fighting over political differences and not unify. host: randy, your comments on nuclear weapons policy -- anything additional? caller: what i was saying about nuclear-weapons, regardless of what he will do about nuclear- weapons, we are not unified behind our president. the second point i wanted to make about the media in general is that i know that people, if they have political leaning one way or the other, they see the media being against them but the media in general usually point to the microphone at whatever voice is the loudest.