states with democratic incumbents where the opposition to the president s plan is 20% the difference is 20% or higher. congressional races across the country. the more we listen to some of these moderate democrats the more afraid they are getting. one wonders whether this is not a suicidal position. sean, the american people do support health care reform. they don t support this health care reform. sean: you ve been doing a lot of focus groups throughout the year. you did a group where you asked people if the democrats should use reconciliation, the nuclear option. set this up for our audience and then we ll show the tape. it was a week ago in philadelphia, they were incensed about the idea that someone would try to use a political trick to get something through congress as important as reconciliation, as important as health care. let s take a look. how many of you believe the democrats should try to get any health care through and
tickets what is going on for the democratic party? they become the party of corruption? have that he totally abdicated their responsibility of their members? joining me number one new york times best seller how many times? seven. thank you for asking. sean: all right. culture of corruption, draining the swamp, what is going on? yeah, i think we would be hearing that if these were all republicans we heard it from many of the same circumstances. i will not take advantage of the eric massa sean: whoa, why not? after all we heard, why not? because they were insane. the circumstances are almost identical, in that steny hoyer was warned about massa, back on february 8th. the democrats big claim was you should have known there was a complaint about mark foley sending e-mails he is a
democrats go is better than any we re going to get in that office that. is why the new york times is going after governor patterson. congratulations they came up with something yesterday. what do you think this means? this is an important question. what does this mean for election? i mean, 2006 was all one person. mark foley. right. that resulted in massive loss for republicans. is this combined? right. what republicans i don t think that is the answer. it hurt republicans. the reason is because this is driven by the media. they can pick and choose whom they re going after z at what time. when they went after mark foley for something similar waits too late for a primary race. too late. he was on the ballot. they did that, i mean they d go to dnc and say when when is the best time? sean: i think they re making political determinations. and over all, to the democrat
understand. americans think the country s headed in the right direction collapsing. percentage of americans consumer confidence falling. on question after question the american people are becoming as pessimistic, cynical as they were in the last few months of the bush administration. obama had this brief honeymoon now he keeps pushing this health care plan, i don t know who he is listening to but the american people clearly don t want it. sean: i think he s listening to his own ideology here. we ve been asking this question over and over again. would you think at some point he would become pragmatic and look at the polls and hear the american people. at some point he would see there are political consequences for this. the only answer i can come up with is he s following his own rigid ideology, is that a fair guess? it is a possbility. look, the political consequences are significant. arkansas, colorado, indiana, states with democratic
he s had the rental property for 18 years. why does the new york times want to get rid of rangel now? sean: it is an election year. they are after rangel like he s a ran. sean: after two years of investigative work they came to a conclusion that he broke ethics rules. i m suspicious. sean: what do you mean? i can tell you why they are going after patterson. yesterday was+ the first day the new york times presented anything i thought was a problem. we find out yes the calls to the girlfriend of his close aide were to try to get her to drop the case. sean: it might have been the use of the state trooper. up until yesterday it might have been, might have been. yesterday you have a legitimate case. why isn t the is the new york times going after patterson? because he s trying to cut the budget. sean: you ask your own question and scene. and answer.