i mean,. this was news to them. to the delay of a year. they all want this to be i don t know if it should have delayed a year. been. i was trying to give them a pep they don t all want a talk. year s delay. we know what you were doing. some of them want a delay of hard to believe. i was unsexy for a period of six weeks in the penalty. time. was that when you had the others want a longer collar up on the shirt? enrollment period of some i had long hair. undefined length. some of them like manchin do i wore played. drove a chrysler le baron. want a year-long delay in you re wearing played now. the mandate. nobody among that group is this is gingham. saying hey let s stop. if i were the guy in the time-out. banana suit, i would have let s take a year or six punched you, man. months to get this thing right before it starts i said, listen, i have to getting to be implemented. and look you had 15 people split. i m out of here. banana, split. led by 15 democrats led b
obamacare by morning years ago. the white house knew it and debateded it internally over six people served [cheers and applause] joining us from san francisco, big country music fan dennis kucinich former congressman and fox news analyst. you are honest guy and that s why we have you on the program. your party is headed for big trouble. you know it, i know it, rove knows it. are you going to tell the folks that? well, first of all, bill, the american people are concerned about the inability of both political parties to deliver jobs, to deliver healthcare for all, to solidify retirement service to keep us out of war. so, i don t see this as a democrat/republican thing. you are right i have watched many of your shows. the rollout of the healthcare plan has been a disaster. but, an even greater disaster is the fact that you have auto million people
the bottom of the hour. president obama called congressman stupak this week urging him not to retire. you may know this, congressman stupak is the prolife democrat who switched his vote at the 11th hour after getting abortion agreement from president obama. he brought along a whole block of votes and it pushed health care reform over the finish line. steve, when did stupak make this decision? we don t know everything about the tile line on this. we do know there s a regular deliberation process, we spoke yesterday with his wife, laurie stupak who said bi-annually they take a look at whether or not this is something they wish to do, to go through the rigors of a exaib in the house and the answers have been yes and yes and he s won handily here. we do know yesterday the folks at northern michigan university where the news conference will take place in 30 minutes were informed that there may be need for a pod ul and a microphone and a possible news conference, so it could be as early as
pretty badly. i think it turned him off to being in congress and being a part of the democratic majority. jon: you can fly from washington marquette faster than you can drive from one end of his district to another. from our chicago, telling me it was taking eight hours to cross his district by car. so you can see, just the prospect of campaigning again in a district that size couldly leave a guy exhausted. yeah. i think that s part of it. but let s not ignore political realities here which is that the tea party folks got $250,000 together, john and have been running those ads that martha is talking about. imagine that. that s a serious challenge. they had targeted him second only to harry reid, the democrat senate majority leader for targets for the tea party to out of in the upcoming election. so stupak was clearly
priest defended him in a palm sunday note to parishioners and stupak said he considers the health care reform health care reform bill, quote, his greatest legislative accomplishment. he had come under fire not only by one of his challengers, by some on the left that had seen him as a holdout, as a betrayal but some on the right as well. he s a prolife democrat that switched his vote after the agreement on the abortion language with the president. the tea party express had been holding rallies to try to get him out of office. jon: that is sheriff mike lovelace speaking, he is talking about the history of law enforcement support from the congress. as we go through some of these preliminary speakers in advance of this big announcement, let s go to juan williams in washington.