. >> that is minnesota republican michelle bachmann on the formation of the tea party caucus in the house. she says she will sit down with ordinary americans who she says want to take their country back. from whom do they wish to take the country back. >> let me explain to people who are watching for the first time that this is the weekly sarah palin said it -- weekly sarah palin segment. >> no, that is michelle bachmann. >> she is the summer substitute. i just wanted to explain to anyone who -- >> the pollster stanley greenberg did the definitive survey of who these folks are, and what is fascinating is that he exploded a couple of minutes that are charged by congresswoman michelle bachmann and others. over 90% of the tea party members in view president obama as a socialist, as a socialist. 92% disapprove of them, 89% of them dapprove of him as strongly. this is not a representative group. by a three-one margin, they think favorably of big corporations such as bp and aig. it is not a church-driven. they are married and older, but this is a republican group and they will have one half of

and especially michele bachmann's because she had worked it so hard, but it ended up there were a few more signatures on my bill than the others so i introduced a discharge petition, some five or six weeks ago. a discharge petition, mr. speaker, is the one single tool that the disenfranchised majority opinion in this congress can use to bring legislation to the floor over the will of the speaker of the house, nancy pelosi. any other method that we might have to move legislation here in the house is blocked by the iron fist of the speaker. any legislation we try to move through committee will go nowhere, no matter what the support is for a bill, if the speaker doesn't want it to move, it doesn't move. if you want a hearing before -- for a piece of legislation before a committee, you will not get that hearing. if you want a markup before a subcommittee or a full committee, you will not get that markup. the speaker will decide whether it moves or whether it doesn't. it is an iron fisted draconian hand that shuts down the opportunity for the will of the people to be manifested in a record

the founding member of the tea party caucus in the house, michele bachmann of minnesota. she'll be here live in a few minutes. >>> we're going to begin with day 92 of the crisis in the gulf. matt gutman, once again, in buras, louisiana, for us, with the very latest. good morning, matt. >> reporter: good morning, robin. and that new plan is called the static kill. bp says it's very promising. of course, it's still in the design phases. it would have to be approved by the government first, which is much more concerned right now with not making the spill worse than it already is. this morning, new hope to kill this well, as early as this month. not yet approved, the plan would allow engineers to force-feet the well a thick cocktail of mud and cement. all through the new stacking cap, this school bus-sized plug. because oil's not shooting out of the well, they could do it slowly and carefully. it's the latest in bp's long list of plans, 11 so far. following top kill, bottom kill and junk shot. >> if we can do the static kill, it should accelerate or at least complement and im

when a celebrity like -- well, michelle bachmann is certainly becoming a celebrity, a great friend ofine -- but talking about sarah palin -- when people like that make endorsements from 5000 miles away because campaign workers have submitted her a bill of goods, sometimes mistakes can be made. i hope that the best republican will serve as and each and every election, and we will win these elections on november 2. host: david wants to know why ron paul has not joined the tea party caucus. guest: if he was a founder of the tea party movement, you have got snookered meet this morning, because i had not heard that. we will certainly reach out to ron, a very independent thinker. indeed, ron paul, like me, it isn't ob/gyn, and i am the co- chairmen -- is an ob/gyn, and i am a co-chairman of the house dr.'s caucus. ron paul is a member of our active but not an member. he was a great doctor when practicing medicine, and is a great member of congress. host: democratic line. caller: glad to get a chance to talk on c-span. i'm listening to the previous callers, and my concern is that, you know,

after that, michelle bachmann, our colleague, says to the b.p. president about the $20e billion says, if i was the head of b.p., i would let the signal get out there, we aren't going to be chumps or be fleeced and we shouldn't have to be fleeced and make chump to have to pay for the perpetual unemployment and all the rest. so, i mean, if you contemplate that statement for a moment, our friends on the other side of the aisle just got through talking about how it's b.p.'s fault. that's what they say now, right after the fund that was developed by the president to make sure that victims of this both economic, physical and others had a basis of compensation. the republican caucus initial gut reaction which is their most sincere reaction is to say it's a shakedown and we aren't going to be chumps and say that b.p. shouldn't have to pay unemployment. i mean -- it didn't stop there. let me say one more before i hand it back to you. congressman king from iowa, i think joe barton was spot on when we when he called it a shakedown. no remorse. let me yield

i have in conjunction with michelle bachmann, worked intensively to repeal obamacare. she introduced a repeal on the first day. i introduced one on the first week. we have a discharge at the petition at the well, discharge number 11. we have 136 signatures and i wouldn't be surprised if it goes over 140. a discharge petition can circumvent a block by the speaker if 218 signatures on discharge petition number 11, that means obamacare comes to the floor of the house where it would certainly be repealed in the house, however difficult it is to get it through the senate. we need it gone. we need to put an end to obamacare lock, stock and barrel. no one parallel of d.n.a. left behind. obamacare has become a tumor and threatens to spread on these free people, formerly free people. and if we were to have the vitality, we can't be living with the dependency that is created biobauma care. mr. speaker, i pledge my strongest effort to repeal obamacare, completely and entirely to ritch it out by its roots and to quote, as if it had never been enacted, closed quote. mr. speaker, th

i'm not worried about michelle bachmann. uyghur from yesterday.uys should worry either. those guys are strong. but i think we all know there is probably a couple of republicans in congress who could use some friendly adult supervision. [laughter] so as conservative activists and conservative members of the dia that will be ourask after the conservative tidal wave hits the shores of the potomac th fall as i believe it will. so please, log onto hot air.om next week, check out the obamacare post. i think it will be compelling and impactful and i hope it goes viral because the amrican people, they still know they don't like that bill, they don't like that love that we will remind them exactly why and exactly why that righteous anger so many people felt a year ago should endure and democrats should pay when they go to the polling place. i know my time is almost up and if you'll excuse may have an appointment at the newest tourist attraction here in las vegas. it is called the stiff man. is actually al gore is brand-new massage parlor. i've got to run.