retirement age. how quickly is a matter of debate. you said something else that i have not heard from anybody i don t think which is just a means test social security. i ve heard that about medicare but not social security. you want a means test of social security, that means those wealthier will get a lower and lower and lower payment from the government. yes, i think that s right. i think that s the only way we save this program. sorry, kathleen. no, senator, i was going to shift gears away from the budget which i adore talking about but to politics. you have said that the senior senator from utah where you re from, of course, is orrin hatch and you said you will not endorse him for the primary. do you have somebody else in mind to challenge him? no, what i ve said is that i ll support the eventual nominee for the republican party for the u.s. senate race for utah in 2012. senator hatch is a friend. he s helped me get oriented to the senate. he has told me he s fine with the
washington to stop tiptoeing around cuts and entitlement spending. what s the truth that nobody is talking about? here s the truth that nobody is talking about. you re going to have to raise the retirement age for social security. oh, i just said it, and i m still standing here. i did not vaporize into the carpeting, and i said it. christie insists he is not running for president in 2012. senator scott brown says he was sexually abused several times as a child by a camp counselor. the massachusetts republican tells 60 minutes he was also physically abused by stepfathers. he says his mother and wife don t even know about some of the abuse. he says, quote, that s what happens when you re a victim. you re embarrassed and you re hurt. ted kennedy junior won t follow in his father s footsteps, at least for now. he says the connecticut post he s ruling out a senate run. he says he wants to focus on his family.
seek re-election in 2012. a source is telling the new york times earlier that mr. lieberman is choosing retirement rather than choosing possible defeat. he lost the democratic primary in 2006 with a challenge from the left from businessman ned lamont. he ran as an independent later and won. the senator postponed the announcement in order to get don t ask don t tell repealed. meanwhile, one of his colleagues, kent conrad, announced he won t seek re-election in 2012. senator richard lugar of indiana announced he will. the associated press reporting that representatives from over 50 tea party groups will meet saturday to strategize defeating lugar in the primary. the sixth-term senators support for the s.t.a.r.t. treaty anger maryland on the right. here s another one. lugar says he is for the reinstatement of the assault
nbc news is reporting he won t seek re-election in 2012. a source is telling the new york times earlier that mr. lieberman is choosing retirement rather than choosing possible defeat. he lost the democratic primary in 2006 with a challenge from the left from businessman ned lamont. he ran as an independent later and won. the senator postponed the announcement in order to get don t ask don t tell repealed. meanwhile, one of his colleagues, kent conrad, announced he won t seek re-election in 2012. senator richard lugar of indiana announced he will. the associated press reporting that representatives from over 50 tea party groups will meet saturday to strategize defeating lugar in the primary. the sixth-term senators support for the s.t.a.r.t. treaty anger maryland on the right. here s another one. lugar says he is for the reinstatement of the assault ban. and the special olympics is
a source is telling the new york times earlier that mr. lieberman is choosing retirement rather than choosing possible defeat. he lost the democratic primary in 2006 with a challenge from the left from businessman ned lamont. he ran as an independent later and won. the senator postponed the announcement in order to get don t ask don t tell repealed. meanwhile, one of his colleagues, kent conrad, announced he won t seek re-election in 2012. senator richard lugar of indiana announced he will. the associated press reporting that representatives from over 50 tea party groups will meet saturday to strategize defeating lugar in the primary. the sixth-term senators support for the s.t.a.r.t. treaty anger maryland on the right. here s another one. lugar says he is for the reinstatement of the assault ban. and the special olympics is