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. >> moyers: back then, one of their chief propagandists, william kristol, urged his party to block any health care plan for fear democrats would be seen as, quote, "the generous protector of middle-class interests." now he's telling the g.o.p. to "go for the kill, throw the kitchen sink at it, drive a stake through its heart. we need to start over." so in lockstep are the republicans that when strategist alex castellanos issued a memo on the battle plan, party chairman michael steele echoed it word for word in a speech at washington's national press club. slow down, mr. president. we can't afford to get health care wrong. >> slow down, mr. president. we can't afford to get health care wrong. >> moyers: the old, top-down washington-centered system the democrats propose will empower washington to restrict the cures and treatments your doctor can prescribe for you. >> moyers: "president obama is experimenting with america, too much, too soon, and too fast." >> your experiment promotes-- proposes too much, too soon, too fast. >> moyers: as the republicans fired away, big business stepped u

. >> moyers: back in 1993, the republican propagandist william kristol urged his party to block any healthposal, in order to prevent the democrats from being seen as the quote, "generous protector of the middle class." but today, you've got some democrats who are going along with the industry. max baucus, the senator from montana, for example, the most important figure right now in this health care legislation that's being written in the senate-- he's resisted including a public insurance option in the reform bill, right? >> that's right. >> moyers: why is the industry so powerful on both sides of the aisle? >> well, money and relationships, ideology. the relationships... an insurance company can hire and does hire many different lobbying firms. and they hire firms that are predominantly republican and predominantly democrat. and they do this because they know they need to reach influential members of congress like max baucus. so there are people who used to work for max baucus who are in lobbying firms or on the staff of companies like cigna or the association itself. >> moyers: yeah, i j

congress buying whathe surance industry is peddling moyers: back in 1993, the republican propandist william kristolparty to block any health care propal, in order prevent the democrats from being seen as theuote, enerous protector of the middle class." but today, you've got some democratwho are going along with the industry. max baucus, the senator from montana, for example, thmost important figure rightow in this health care legislati that's bei written in the nate-- he's resisted includi a public insurce option in the reform bill, right that's right. >> moyers:hy is the industry so powerful on both des of the aie? >> well, moneynd relationships, iology. the relationship.. an insurance company can hire a does hire many difrent lobbying firms. and ey hire firms that are predinantly republican and predominantly democrat. and they do this bause they know ty need to reach influential mbers of congress like max baucu so there a people who used to work for max baucus who are lobbyi firms or on the staff of companies like cigna or t association itse. >> mers: yeah, i just read the other day, in "the wash

look at william kristol. the wisdom of regime change, the merits of promoting democracy, the desire believe american power and influence -- these issues extend well beyond iraq. surely is not too much to claim that the ideological underpinning that the war in iraq and the thrust of the bush administration foreign policy, it bore the unmistakable mark of two generations of conservative thinking. and while american policy has been shaped by these ideas, the tragedy is immense itself to a fundamentally undemocratic believe is some common sense is based on a spurious notion that only a select few -- those of us up here -- can ever understand the secret wisdom of the intelligentsia. all the rest of you can spend your time at the mall. america is a powerful nation. it cannot be a great nation is to realize on the false proposition that because it enjoys a sense of moral purpose that it is therefore obliged or entitled to project its military might abroad. the really profound tragedy of the new conservative reading

bill kristol, editor of ""the weekly standard". " juan williams, news analyst for national public radioyndicated columnist, charles krauthammer. bill, your thoughts? >> i think the president spoke stupidly on wednesday night, but i don't want to give the impression that i'm maligning the president when i say that. maybe i should calibrate that statement more thoroughly. he can't just apologize to america. with hed can't apologize when he maligns the police acted stupidly. he means the police acted stupidly and sergeant you couldly acted stupidly. he spoke knowing nothing about the case. he clearly was wrong. he can't simply apologize. bret: juan? >> he should have apologized, labeled it as such and moved on. now he's not moving on. professor gates says the story is over. barack said it all is what professor gates said. he wishes this story is over t has become a burden for president obama, threatens his agenda. the whole thing about this is you're supposed to stay on message. he has invited a major distraction, and the reason i say that is that he is doing damage to his image as someone

political analyst, and contributors mara liasson of national public radio, bill kristol of "the weekly standard," and juan williams, also from national public radio. brit, you heard robert gibbs' explanation of the president's evolution. your thoughts on all of this. >> well, i think robert gibbs didn't add a lot and was probably trying not to add a lot to the record on this issue. what's striking about this is the president was clearly trying to get this over with and put the firestorm out. and yet in the end, he couldn't bring himself to actually apologize for himself. this president who travels the world apologizing for his country couldn't quite apologize for himself. he spoke of not calibrating his words perfectly. he suggested he didn't mean a malign the police officer in question or the cambridge police department but he said they acted stupidly. you obviously malign them. so in the end, this controversy may be nearing an end, but if he'd made an outright apology and said he'd never should have waded into it in the first place, he shouldn't have said any words, if he'd said that, it would be over. here we a

talk show host laura ingraham, mara liasson of national public radio, bill kristol of "the weekly standard," and juan williamsnational public radio. so we lead out in the last segment the growing frustration with the president's stimulus plan. what seems to be a drop in his poll numbers. bill, how much trouble is mr. obama in? >> he's in pretty real trouble. the stimulus was his first big piece of legislation. he got it through as presidents usually get their first piece of legislation through. they promised they'd be created jobs by the summer. they said unemployment could go up to 9%. we'll keep it below 8%. it's now up to 9.5%. it's hurt his credibility. would you trust this team to understand the cap and trade proposal if they got the stimus so wrong? >> it's a lot of wishful thinking. this man's approval rating is in range of every other president during this period. what bill and other republicans want is for obama to be in trouble. you look at ohio. there are more people saying we're concerned about job loss. you look at independents, more of them are saying we're concerned about job loss. but among in

talk show host, laura ingraham, mara liasson of national public radio and bill kristol from the weekly standard and juan williams from the national public radio and we laid out the growing frustration with the stimulus plan and seems to be a drop in poll numbers and bill, how much trouble in mr. obama in. >> i think he's in pretty real trouble and the stimulus was his first big piece of legislation and got it through as presidents usually do get the first piece of legislation through and promised they'd create jobs by the summer and they said, if it doesn't go through, unemployment will go up to 9% and they said they'd keep it below 8% and now it is 9.5 cents a and it hurt the credibility and they have to understand the consequences of the health care proposal and the energy proposal, if they got the stimulus wrong. >> it is a lot of wishful thinking, the man's approval rating is well over 50%, in the range of every other president during the period and i think in fact what bill and other republicans want is for obama to be in trouble and so you look at a state like ohio and, yes, there are more people now sayin

time for our sunday newspaper, bill kristol of the weekly standard, mara liasson of national public radio, syndicated columnist, charles krauthammer and juan williamso from national public radio. and so bill, let's talk about where we are, the cbo this week, basically and i think they scored a direct hit, on the president's reform plan said, basically it is not going to cut spending and it is going to increase, not be revenue-neutral on the deficit, and peter orszag disputed both and where are we in this debate. >> i think the obama administration, democrats' plan is in trouble and it was interesting, president obama said in the clip you showed, it will happen this year and i guess he means legislation will be passeded and none of the legislation goes into effect until 2013 and the health care reforms don't go into effect for four years and the president says it has to be passed by the end of the session in july and boy august and has to be passed this year and it us unbelievable to me to say that. the stimulus package was an emergency -- foolish package, but in principle, an emergency injection of stimulus into the economy, and it was reasonable t

group, fox news contributors bill kristol of "the weekly standard," mara liasson of national public radio, syndicated columnist charles krauthammer, and juan williams, also from national public radio. so, bill, let's talk about where we are right now. the cbo this week basically, and i think they scored a direct hit on the president's reform plan, said basically it is not going to cut spending and it is going to increase, not be revenue neutral on the deficit. peter orszag disputed both. where are we in this debate? >> i think the obama administration's plan or democrats' plan is in trouble. you saw the clip, it will happen this year. i guess he means legislation will be passed this year. none of this health care legislation goes into effect until 2013. the tax increases go into effect 2011. the health care reforms don't go into effect for four years. the president says it has to be passed by both houses by the end of this session july, august, and by the end of this year. it's unbelievable to me for him to say that. the stimulus package, that was an emergency injection of stimulus into the economy. it was reasonable to say do it now. what is the c

kristol of the weekly standard. jennifer loven who covers the white house for the associated press secretary. steven hayes and one williamser and booster. you have gotten a fair amount of attention since friday afternoon for saying she is crazy like a fox and this is an interesting and perhaps successful strategy to win her the presidency. explain. >> the high risk move but the truth is for those who are doubtful about her she wasn't going to do anything in the next 18 months as alaska governor to convince them she was more qualified than they thought for high office and this gives her a chance to travel the country and campaign for 2010 which is difficult when you are the sitting governor of a state that is pretty far away. study up on issues that it is hard for her to get fully up to speed on as full-time governor of alaska and i think she could have a strong year and a half here if she is disciplined and imaginative and picks the right issues to quarrel with president obama about. first governor bush ran as governor of texas with the whole bush machine behind him. romney had a professional team and she is really just g

sunday group, bill kristol of "the weekly standard," jennifer loven who covers the white house for the associated press, stephen hayes also from "the weekly standard," and juan williams of national public radio. so, bill, you are our resident palin watcher and booster. you've gotten a fair amount of attention since friday afternoon for saying that she's crazy like a fox, and this is an interesting and perhaps successful strategy to win her the presidency. explain. >> it's a high-risk move. the truth is for those who are doubtful about her she wasn't going to do anything in 18 months as alaska governor to convince them she was more qualified for high office. this gives her a chance to travel the country, campaign for republicans in 2010 in a way that's difficult when you're sitting governor of a state that's far away. study up on issues that is hard to get up on as full-time governor of alaska. if she's imaginative, picks the right issues to quarrel with president obama about, but it's high risk. she's all in here. and she has no safety net. you know, most -- bush ran -- george w. bush ran for president as governor of texas. mccain had his machine from a previous roun