mr. buchanan today. he assaulted two staff members. we're going to hear him and get a plea on him and make a decision and see if he'll give us any comments on it because he's on the psych unit, it means i have to go to him and hear the case. they'll bring him out in cuffs and we'll do it there. >> but joe buchanan might have different plans. >> hey, joe, we want to take you back here in the back. >> i ain't going. >> come on, joe. >> i want to plead guilty. >> you don't want to come out, then? >> no. >> let me talk to him for a second. buchanan, you don't want to change your plea or anything? do you want to give a statement? >> i'm guilty. >> okay. i'll come back and let you know what we did, then. >> you can just write it down, all right? >> okay. i accepted his plea of guilty. i'm going to give him a year in seg starting on the 19th. and he's a lifer. so there's nothing else that we can really do to him. so now i'm going to go back and tell him what i did. mr. buchanan, you know you got a year in idu, right? i will tell them know tha

mr. pat buchanan in commercials. i understand in iowa he's using ann coulter. mean, this couldn't get better if i wrote the script myself. >> and they are milismiling at white house. i think they are giving themselves high-fives. when you see a long and drawn out front-runner, the candidates are going to keep moving right. this is the beginning because primary voters are the more extreme voters, party activists. and in order to get the nomination, that's who they need to cater to but that's going to hurt them in the general. >> now, one of the arguments nia, the romney people have made, is that he's the one that's electable. but if you look at these new polls that say that if you look at the polls that are out to date, barack obama, 49%, newt gingrich 40%. so he wins and this poll was taken between november 14th and obama beats him 9%. gingrich, 45. i mean, i'm sorry, romney, 45-44 during the same period. so the argument that mit has been making is that i can tie the president up better than newt can. does he hurt that? does he erode that by starting to take th

mr. lee was the dialysis patient and he's probably in his 80's and every time we would drive up to buchanan street, the hospital, mr. lee would say, "good job, fine driver, number one driver" and he would go like this [thumbs up gesture]. and then as brian would be helping him off the van, mr. lee, i heard him so often say, "brian, if anybody gives you any trouble you send them to me and i'll take care of them." and here great big old brian would say, "henry, you're the first one i would try to get help from." and he says, "the second one is elsa." [laugh] so we knew that we were being relied on by brian. a few weeks back, mrs. lee called brian early in the morning to tell him not to bother picking them up because they were already at the hospital. mr. lee was ill and she had taken him to the er. the next day or so, brian, on his lunchtime, found out that mr. lee had been admitted to the hospital and he went up to mr. lee's room and just stuck his head in just to say hello. and the minute mr. lee saw him he went [gesture thumb up in the air] like that. and mrs. lee said, "he's telling you a

mr. buchanan: mr. speaker, i rood today -- mr. bucshon: no one chooses when they have a heart attack. i did my job. i'm here today to do my job and i'll work through the holidays if that's what it takes. we have 11 days to pass a tax relief bill, along with an extension of unemployment insurance, temporary assistance for needy families and finally 11 days to prevent a 27% cut to medicare that will put american seniors at risk for losing their access to quality what health care. seniors rely on being able to see their doctors, this 60-day patch does nothing to create certainty for providers or seniors. in fact, it jeopardizes their care. i support the bill we passed last week, i support this resolution, i urge my colleagues to vote yes on house resolution 501. thank you and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina. mr. clyburn: mr. speaker, may i inquire as to how much time i have remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from south carolina has 12 3/4 minutes remaining. the gentleman from georgia has 16 minutes remaining.

mr. buchanan: i urge my colleagues in congress to join me in this effort. taxpayer dollars should not be used to bail out europe. we need to take care of america first. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california rise? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. you know, we're running out of time. just in california, where i come from, 356,000 californians are at risk of losing critical unemployment benefits because this congress has failed to act. ms. hawn: these aren't just -- ms. hahn: these aren't just strangers, these are our friends, our neighbors, our families. these are proud americans who through no fault of their own have lost their jobs. they want to work. but because this congress has failed to act, jobs are hard to find. and instead of just voting on extending these unemployment benefits, my republican friends have access to approve other unrelated controversial items in this

buchanan and pat robertson and mike huckabee. in this era of the anti-establishment, in this era of the tea party, here's mr.hment now poised to possibly win iowa. those of us who thought republican politics in 2012 were going to mirror republican politics of 2010 now look i think about as prescient as those who were saying hillary clinton had it all locked up four years ago today. joining us now from java joe's in des moines, iowa, a coffee ç shop you may be familiar with from such guests as our priest defense, is karen tumulty, national political correspondent for the "washington post." karen, thanks so much for joining us tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> all right. so my thesis, my provocative thesis that i'm throwing down from on high here in the confines of midtown manhattan, new york is that the tea party is -- what we're seeing is the end of the tea party as such and mitt romney's ascension in iowa signals that. and what do you think of this thesis? >> well, you know, first of all, after as many years as i've been doing this, i don't -- i'm never comfortable calling the end or the beginning of