didn t know i had it in me. . sean: new york congressman rangel may have overstated his welcome as chairman of the house ways and means committee. i think we can agree his successor california rep five pete stark could have stayed longer. his tenure lasted 24 hours before he was forced to go and pass the gavel to michigan s sander levin admits concerns about his temperament. new york congressman eric massa announced yesterday he would not seek reelection one term congressman. allegations are out there he sexually harrassed a male staffer. all of these problems come on the heels of new york governor patterson s withdrawal from his upcoming race after he caused an uproar for intervening in the domestic violence case of an close aide. by the way, he got free yankee
if you made a mistake mr. obama, you can close gitmo keep it keep em locked up and incarcerated. sean: if we got a guy with a bomb in his underwear, i want to waterboard him. i don t see this is different from health care. he s boxed himself in once again. night i ve when he s a candidate talking for three years, naive when he s a candidate. talking for three years. nowhere to go. another liberal constituency that is going to be disappointed come november because he s not doing anything about health care, the environment. he s not doing anything about terrorism. gays in the military. he s not hitting any of their issues also not making anyone in the middle happy. independents are fleeing from the president. they are bleeding. he s sinking like the thai. you clearly are not paying
these congressmen have to stand fast they got to get elected. whoever votes for that you do it in november you show em what you feel. sean: wash upon post article unidentified democrat washington post article, unidentified depend saying this is obama s holy grill doesn t care about us, our re holy grail. he doesn t care about us, our district our reelection. democrats are gonna hang out to dry come november if they support the obama bill. that s howard dean. one time chair of the democratic party and got unceremoniously dumped when obama won, so i can understand his reaction. sean: he s been a strong defender of nationalized health care. he s been that way for a long time he s obviously for a public option. obama and his crowd have decided that a public option is not viable. sean: the public has rejected this mayor overwhelmingly. but the president has blinders
statements before. can you i m sorry i know we say this all the time, can you imagine a republican saying this? sean: read a favorite. there are so many. he denounces jc watts all children born out of wedlock. medical degree from d brickashaw through pillow tack. also the rnc print out isn t good as wikipedia. the supporters of the gulf war, colleagues on wikipedia and footnoted. sean: he refered to the african-american health of human services as a disgrace to his race. did they not look at wikipedia before they hired? [ talking over each other ] can t you get somebody as liberal who isn t a lunatic. sean: you ve never said anything controversial. i ve never said anything like this?
year but yesterday the president unveiled so-called road map for passing health care reform. as with everything he does a timetable calling on congress to vote on health care in the next few weeks. the president: both during and after last week s summit republicans in congress insisted the only acceptable course on health care reform is to start over. but given these honest and substantial differences between the parties, about the need to regulate the insurance industry and to help millions of middle class families get insurance, i don t see how another year of negotiations would help. sean: did the speech help or hurt the president s efforts? joining me is frank luntz. well, obviously tone-deaf not gonna listen to republicans. moving forward with reconciliation, the very thing he condemned. how is this going over? the yes is whether he s list anyone to the american people.