caller: sarah palin all the way. what happened with the republican party this last eight years is president bush was a social conservative, but we need a fiscal conservative in the white house. host: sarah palin on the fox news channel last night with strong hannity -- sean hannity. here's what the two talked about with regard to the rhetoric in american politics today. >> we are hearing a lot of good rhetoric. but we are not seeing those actions. this many months into the new administration -- quite disappointed, quite frustrated with not seen those actions to rein in spending and slow down the growth of government. instead, it is the complete opposite. it is expanding at such a large degree. unfortunately, our country could evolve into something that we do not even recognize. that is so far from what the founders of our country had in mind for us. that is where we're headed. you have to be blunt about the candidate and honest with the americans to let them know. if we keep going down these roads, nationalizing many

jazeera palin would into any of those things so that is another thing. and also on salon another woman writer said that sarah perron is such a power mad backwater beauty pageant casualty is easy to write her off and make fun of her but in reality glad to sitting down for this, in reality i feel as horrified as they get a jew watching the rise of national socialism. so the rise of sarah palin was akin to the rise of nazism in germany, some of a please call jerry lewis, we needed telethon to raise money to fight this disease. one of the more corrupt examples -- before i get to solutions and want to give another example of how the media went way beyond what normally does and how it corrected itself. late in the campaign in october "the new york times" ran to page one profiles of it the potential first lady's. this is michelle obama and cindy mccain, and as i write in the book in late october as in the campaign was nearing the finish line, "the new york times" ran profiles of the candidates' wives. one had all the pathos of a great tragedy and the other was

and also you say the press coverage was largely about sara palin. that was pretty short lived before they started attacking her. and i know brian williams even asked her for her medical records. and i don't think mr. obama's medical records, educational records, birth certificate, et cetera. there are a lot of things missing that we haven't seen. and then my third point here and i guess my question is in the press conference, there was no question about the committy and the playing. i mean, it was supposed to be for publicity. for who? what was it for? >> are you talking about air force one in new york? >> i am. >> which goes to theer issue of biggest mistake thus far. can you point to anything small or big that -- guest: in the presidency so far host: campaign or presidency. guest: i think the tom daschle situation, let's not say that the pig, but the way that developed, the way it was handled has caused them no end of problems in getting the right people in the right jobs, in defining what the line is lobbying or making money on taxes, it's become

everything, they pour palin , everything that came up the media went after. >> host: let me do my for you right now, number one, if you think the media was always in love with him and only gave positive coverage you must have forgotten the two month period for basically all the way through the pennsylvania primary and beyond which was dominated by one man called jeremiah wright and i assure you remember him. it was compounded by candidate obama singing people were bitter in small towns in america and this was two months of the worst coverage of any candidate in any election. so i guess if you set that aside and say well, that never happened, then you could make the case. but then you also have to set aside the absolute fascination for sarah palin because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a superstar and in candidates obama made jokes about fact she was getting more magazine coverage than he was. there were, let me scale this back a little bit and say when you are winning things generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports and politics. obam

sarah palin, of quebec? i'm so worried about my country, i'm sorry about it -- but i love the response that was well, i love glen back's mind, but i'm worried about. host: today is flag day which was first observed in 1877 on the 100th anniversary of the continental congress' adoption of the stars and stripes as our official national flag. all public buildings should fly the flag on july 14 and the idea quickly caught on in many wanted to participate in the waving of the flood. one early supporter was bj, a schoolteacher who wanted june 14 to be known as the day. in 1916 president woodrow wilson proclaimed it as a national celebration, however, the holiday was not officially recognized until 1949 when harry truman signed the national flag day bill. back to the phones. we have one more from miami, on our republican line. caller: i have a comment about the connecting the dots, and you made earlier from the miami herald. you said that long time homers

but then you would also have to set aside the media's absolute fascination for sara palin, because for the initial week or two of her rollout, she was a super star. you know, and then candidate obama made jokes about the fact that she was getting more magazine covers than he was. there were -- let me scale this back a little bit and say, look, when you are winning things, generally the coverage gets a lot better. you know, it's true in sports, it's true in politics. obama won more than he lost. but when he was losing, the

the palin family received a belated apology a week later. i hope the host realizes that children should not be the targets of sexually charged jokes or do we allow the unacceptable to become the acceptable? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from california rise? >> request to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. >> madam speaker, i rise today to protect the doctor-patient relationship. president obama and many congressional democrats have been pushing for government-run health care. looking at the results of government-run plans across the world, it's a mistake we simply cannot afford. government-run health care will be bad for doctors, bad for patients and bad for the taxpayers. that's why i introduced legislation to ensure that washington bureaucrats do not use comparative effectiveness research to make health care decisions for you based on costs. the doctor-patient relationship and research act focuses

a good example of this is the treatment that sarah palin got. now, the mainstream media took a lot of hits for the unfair coverage of sarah palin and all of that. the fact of the matter is, we did not broadcast one word about these rumors that were circulating that were all over the internet about sarah palin until the mccain campaign put out a written press statement that said you know, that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant and so on and so forth. obviously when a campaign makes a statement he put out something like it. but, it was all over the place. everybody knew about it. weech readed that information just like we would when somebody would call cbs and say here is a new step. we never did any of that. we never put any of that on the air but a lot of people took a big whack at the media for saying, we put that on. we didn't but that is what we are all dealing with. politicians don't know how to deal with that. we are dealing with it as best we can but it has really changed the way campaigns are now. >> it is that collective word media,

and i want to say to governor palin and her husband, thank you for being here with us tonight. thank you for your great leadership. we appreciate you very much. [applause] now we are going to have a short video that we produced. it shows what is at stake in this election, the principles that we are fighting for, and i were -- and how determined republicans are to bring back the conservative leadership here in washington. this video was produced in house and cost next to $0. widom book is our contribution on winning senate elections in 2010. thank you all for supporting as during this cycle. i hope you feel that you are part of the team. we are headed for a comeback. thank you, and good night. watch the video. [applause] ♪ >> let us renew our board determination, our courage, and our strength. ♪ >> usa, usa. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome back tonight senator orrin hatch. [applause] >> i just want to thank all of you for being here tonight and for supporting both the house and the senate. we simply have to take both of them back. we simply have to. [applause] i want you

david letterman -- every -- the you hear about sarah palin is about her daughter's or a fight with david letterman or she is on some websites attacking someone else. she is not going to rise to international leadership that way. some governors -- >> it is okay to have a sigh of relief. [laughter] not that i have any political prejudice. >> if the republican primaries were held 6 months from now, my guess is mitt romney would win. >> then you have the genius of barack obama in appointing the governor of utah to be ambassador to china and thus removing one of his, perhaps, main rivals. >> someone from the west who was calling for a different kind of republican party. john mccue, secretary of the army, jim leach, republican congressman from iowa, national endowment for the -- congressman from illinois, secretary of transportation, this is from the same thing i am thinking of. our friend rahm emanuel -- >> mid ronny running the campaign around the country, the same candidates to learn, this was his pride and joy, finding the right person to unseat the wrong person. [talking over each other]

caller: take chris matthews, he hammers sarah palin and leslie, day after day. you know why?ecause they are afraid of this conservative woman. another thing, this david letterman comment about sarah palin is the daughter be knocked up a ball game. if it had been obama's daughter he would have been fired the next day. i guarantee you that letterman would have been out there the following day. host: here is another message from twitter about the media. the supreme court watch this week, we take the final release coming out this week. the washington post has this photo of a judge sotomayor meeting with senators. the headline says that most americans want her on the court. the poll indicates that 62% think that the federal judge should be confirmed by the senate. this is an abc news poll in conjunction with "the washington post." in the philadelphia paper, sotomayor role feels interest in a court battle. it concerns the new haven connecticut firefighters. it says that new haven through out a set of it 2003 promotion exams because not enough minority candidates qualify. a group of

one thing i noticed with sarah palin being talked about marginalized basis. i believe that happened to sarah in this election. they doubted her education. they doubted her background. when, in fact, she was a very accomplished young woman that i thought for the first time in a long time got me excited about the presidential election. and i felt like what do you have to say how she was treated by the media and what happened to her on a personal level by putting herself out there in a national race? >> you know, and i appreciate so very much the fact that we had governor sarah palin on the national ticket. i just appreciate her value system and what she stands for. and the fact that she was willing to put herself out there. you know, you can get upset about it or you can realize it's there. that the media has a bias. and i have always just accepted the fact that it was there. and determined that i was not going to leave the playing field. that i was going to be a trailblazer and help to change it. what an important lesson for all of us is that you have the abil

women like sarah palin, who was attacked and ridiculed mercilessly often for the very fact that she's a woman. how often did leftist criticize her for working while she had small children. can you believe it? they actually stood up there after years of saying women should be able to do whatever they want, they criticized her for making the decision to have a career or for her daughter's pregnancy. these are feminists out there criticizing her or worse the most galling criticism of all was the criticism that she decided to have her youngest son despite the fact that she knew he would be born with down syndrome. did they cite as the governor of alaska where she cut the budget increases under the previous administration. i didn't hear any of them talk about her or her diplomatic skills when she was able to forge this bipartisan agreement when it come to the pipeline in alaska. none of that. i didn't see a single feminist come out defending her or praising her for her accomplishments or saying what a great day it was when the republican party nominated a woman to be vice president. instea

they are really losing their touch, and then another movement, and i think it might have been sarah palin's speech, remember the panacea, we were going to save all -- solve all our problems by drilling. it was if it was scripted. the whole audience in the convention hall breaks into a chant, "drill, baby, drill, drill, baby, drill," and i know americans had no idea what that was about, because it is only because -- and i was born in 1969. it is only because i am a student of the 1960's that i know that when rioters rioted in the 1960's, the yells, "burn, baby, burn, burn, baby, burn to -- they yelled that. -- burn, baby, burn." insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen,

palin and todd, thank you for being here and for your leadership, we appreciate you. we will have a video that shows what is at stake in this election, this will show how determined that the republicans are to bring back conservative leadership this cost almost no money so we can focus the contributions on winning the elections in 2010. thank you for supporting us, i hope that you feel that you are helping to turn the corner and go for a comeback. thank you and good night, watched the video. -- watch the video. ♪ >> let us renew our courage and our strength. >> usa! usa! usa! >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome back sen. orrin hatch. -- one- -- oren hatch. >> i will be very short. i just want to thank all of you, for being here tonight, and supporting both the health and -- the house and senate. we have to take them back. we simply have to. we love and appreciate all of you, god bless you and keep telling. -- keep helping. >> please welcome pete sessions. >> thank you very much. and you for hosting us tonight -- and i have the opportunity tonight to see exactly what tabl

another movement and the command convention, sarah palin speech, we were going to solve all our energy problems by drilling on the continental shelf. one of the speakers mentioned that and suddenly, the entire audience in the convention hall breaks into a chance, drill, baby drill. i know americans had no idea what that was about. it is only because i was born in 1969 -- i know that supposedly or if it did happen, when writers rioted. they yelled burn, burn -- baby burn. a symbol of insurgency out of control. they were claiming this kind of insurgency for themselves in the form of calling for more offshore drilling for mobil and exxon. it speaks to one of the themes in my book, that the conservatives have enormous capital from the social struggles of the '60s. americans have reasonable doubts about what those struggles meant. that might have made sense in 1970. these gestures all have a half life. every year, half of their efficacy passes away. they are not speaking american. once the nomination happen, and john mccain got it, republicans like to say the only win elections by being con

rich in natural materials with always provide for abundance, but of course we know that even if sarah palin had a witch and we drill, baby, drill, the whole of alaska, maybe we get 18 months more of oil for our reserves. so i think it wasn't just the -- at least one hopes it wasn't just the five dollar a gallon gas crisis of last summer and autumn which made americans wean them off suvs and seal the doom of some redundant departments of detroit and michigan, but the sort of general, it's up to the educator in chief in the white house, he has certainly been out there doing, just yesterday in fact actually in laying down tougher rules about emission. it's necessary to educate the public that really that our economic future in some sense depends how much short-term pain -- and there will be an awful lot of pain especially in the collapse of the automobile industry in transitioning to a greener future for us all. we have no choice. i mean, it's extraordinarily ironic -- doesn't quite answer your question. i was in shanghai and you would think the chinese would be in gloat mode really. our credi

way to go right wing and sara palin. this is what she believes in. having gun as and the government were to treat us like anybody, go shoot them. rush limbaugh. sean hannity, this is what you guys wanted. you know you keep starting hate and now it's coming back and this is happening. >> we'll leave it there. patrick kennedy according to the "washington journal" that struggled with addiction much of his life said yesterday he's checking himself into a medical facility. other stories look at that that, taking a look at other stories in the "washington post" looking at cyber security as it's called. this is knackshi ma writing about the pentagon's efforts keeping defensive with those attacking the nation based computer systems. some fear the pentagons ability to develop cyber warfare may forge partner ships with the private sector. and with governments and businesses a broad. in the cyber domain according to those. kevin chilton of strategic command said in a meeting last month with reporters,nsa had unique abilities to inform the military of threats an

sarah palin was told saturday night should not be allowed to redress the thousands there after all. the event begins tonight at 7:30 p.m. eastern. finally, former first lady laura bush says she is pleased that president barack obama nominated a woman for the supreme court, saying it judge sonya soda sounds like a winner and a good nominee. she made the remarks in an interview broadcast earlier on " good morning america." "washington journal" continues. host: healthcare is the issue for the next 25 minutes or so. what should the administration's plan look like? from the u.s. news section in this morning's "the wall street journal," this piece about a link senator kennedy. in the newspaper, if the liberal mr. kennedy takes a lesser role that could make it easier for the more conservative mr. baucus, the senator from montana to push the health care legislation into a centrist direction. mr. kennedy is a major proponent of including a publicly run health insurance option. his committee last week began circulating the first draft of the proposal for sweeping changes, starting the maneuve

now stopped briefly to contemplate that possibility that there were even worse options then sarah palin. now he has become the second gop hopeful in the week to do a swan dive off the adultery cliff. if they do not drop it, pretty soon the youngest contender will be 75. can this joins us from riverdale, maryland, on the independent line. caller: good morning, mr. sculley. i believe that public officials private lives should be just that, private. however, when you have politicians like mr. sanford and senator bentsensign, who were so vehement in public against senator clinton -- against president clinton and his problems, there is something very hypocritical about their actions in the public stance that they took. you take this type of positions and it comes back to blow up in your face, then you are fodder for comedians, you are fodder for the public, and you are fodder and you deserve the criticism and the comments that you get. people are looking for politicians to be true blue, not hypocritical. what the walk, talk the talk, and these two individuals have fallen short. host: thank y

want to thank governor pay lynn and todd for coming tonight and for being part of this -- governor palin. [cheers and applause] >> i came in with sarah and todd. we came to the bottom of the steps over here. john mccain was there very gracious,ly welcoming us. i have to tell you. despite every effort of the elite media to prop up joe biden and pretend he actually knows what he's doing, i felt looking at john mccain and sarah pail lynn this country would have been amazingly better off had they been in the white house. [cheers and applause] >> i also want to say that i think on behalf of both campaign committees that john voice has given you your battle cry for the next year and a half. and i say this having once with haley barber and bob doll crisscrossed the country when we've been out of power for 40 years and people thought we were absolutely out of our minds to suggest we could actually win a majority. i think the phrase "do not tell me it can't be done" is about as good a way to start thinking about 2010 and 2012 as you could imagine. [applause] >> and i think our goal should be to r

i think very specifically the constitution assigns the palin and constitutional power to the president of the united states. if secrecy is unnecessary incident of the power of and that is the president's power. >> okay. well, mr. grossman, i would ask you to come back to the chamber if we were in court after we finished the session, but i appreciate your constructive attempts to defend your proposition. and i yield back, mr. chairman. >> thank you. i recognize the gentleman from iowa. >> thank you mr. turkoman and now mr. grossman on to compliment you on the nimble response to the chairman of the kennedy and i would first welcome mr. hutcheson back to the committee and thank all the witnesses for your testimony and first i would like to ask mr. hutcheson and was always able to hear most of the testimony and review some of it in print and look back over the history of the country and wonder when it is i've been alarmed that the state secrets doctrine or executive privileges cause someone to lose their rights or privacy or made the nation less safe or was their anything in history we nee

particularly if we use a bundle payment approach, a per episode approach, will underlie, to sarah palin operate what the bundled payment rates will be, but also realistically, for years, i suspect, our efforts to pursue broader units of payments are going to be blends of fee for service with the broader payment unit, rather than going cold turkey and eliminating fee for service. so some of the early experience using broad every payment units, sometimes puts providers if a bind. because the incentives to reduce the cost per episode may involve disproportionate reduction of the most profitable services and that really undermines provider's interest or ability to pursue these changes. so there are initial steps being discussed by congress now as part of health reef form, such as incentives to reduce hospital readmissions, bund i willing post-acute care into the inpatient drg's, post acute care would be care in nursing homes, home care, rehabilitation facilities. and using a supplemental capitation payment for medical home services. you know, the medical home idea is really a payment reform

[laughter] >> the past year has driven the press crazy because hillary clinton, sarah palin, michelle obama. do you think of tear should have done more to defend her during the harry bridges raucus? i was always disappointed he let her get beaten up. >> that is true. there is no question that he did let her be used as a punching bag. he deflected the things we consider the new deal, that fdr did it. he let her be the one that got criticized for it and then he would sort of hold back during the satel strikes that were so controversial. you would see him and his press conferences when reporters when asked, wasn't he going to drag those workers out of there? he would say what and you asked ms. perkins about it? so, she did play the role for him. but, they both understood the importance of the world that she play. she kept trying to resign after the late 1930's. she tried to resign every year. he would never let her resign and once when she said, she boxed up her stuff, she was going to give up for lease, and was about to leave the seat. he put his arms around her and said and reached up

civil engineering against a father against john rendell, a relative of randalls island, the various palin, but in albany native and very prominent family in albany, new york. news a skills survey air and the man who had just spent a dozen years laying out and mapping the future street grids of manhattan. we're here on 57 straight because 200 years ago john randolph put markers for thousands of a rectilinear blocks on what was then a very rugged and rural landscape. so john randall of the year is the background -- the path of the canal in the mohawk valley was supposed to be entirely along the southern bank of the river. using peters from the mohawk for to water the canal and now between and connecting in albany the mohawk makes a very big north toward art in the most eastern section of the mohawk river. with a false finally spilling the mohawk into the hudson. it now mandola involved himself in the process, he had been invited, he had been asked to becoming the engineer on the erie canal and has said no probably because he was still continuing his work in manhattan and have other projects

sarah palin again is an excellent example of that. she was a busy wife and mother, pta mother, co-owner of a small business. it wasn't like she was sitting around twiddling her thumbs just wanting some attention. she realized some things weren't working in her local government so she decided nobody else is going to do it. she stepped up to take responsibility to make her community a better place for her family. to her, there's no point in being involved if she weren't going for it with her whole heart, her whole being standing firmly upon what she believed everyday. the demand for conservative women speakers on college campuses and for the programs of clare boothe luce have only confirmed that there is a need and a demand for leadership training opportunities for women. i know because of the efforts of clare boothe luce that conservative women will play a significant role in shaping our movement in the future. now, at every event at which i speak, young women come up to me afterwards and they ask, how i got involved in the conservativ