lot of pressure on the tea party conservatives to go ahead and fall into line and vote for this, because the worst thing that could happen for republicans would be to put out this plan and have it be scuttled by conservatives. rosalyn helderman is joining us from the washington post newsroom. her piece is available online. thank you very much for being was. thank you very much for having me. this is washington today on c-span radio. we want to go back to another issue that is tied in directly to what congressman paul ryan will be outlining later this week as he talks about his new budget plan and the impact potentially on overhauling medicare. democrats and their allies today beginning a week-long celebration of the homeowner law and a coordinated push to defend its benefits for senior citizens as a way to take aim at the ryan budget plan. the white house and house democrats out thing the latest figures according to the hill newspaper on how many medicare beneficiar
we re only a day away from a crucial primary that could determine where this republican marathon is headed. fresh off a run away win in puerto rico, mitt romney is now looking to score big in illinois. rick santorum needs a strong showing as he tries to deny romney the nomination. the two rivals have long since taken off the gloves, but now they have put on some brass knuckles as well. our national correspondent jim accosta is in chicago with the very latest. the top two gop contenders are practicing their own brand of chicago style politics on this day before the illinois primary and both rick santorum and mitt romney are proving to be untouchable. reporter: the battle for the gop nomination has come to illinois and in the land of lincoln the republican party is a house divided in an uncivil war of words. i m somewhat experienced in the economy, i m not an economic light weight. president obama is. we re not going to be successful replacing an economic light weight wit
california representative javier becerra in a teleconference on the health care issue but also taking questions about the ryan budget and medicare. there was a reference to senator ron widen a democrat from oregon who has been working with congressman paul ryan. today in the huffington post this op-ed from senator widen saying preserving the medicare guarantee why i ve been working with paul ryan people on both sides of the aisle want to know why a progressive democrat is working with the author of last year s house budget on medicare reform. it s a rather lengthy op-ed. this conclusion this week congressman ryan will be unveiling the house republican budget. i do not know what the details of the budget will be. i did not write it and i cannot imagine a scenario where i would vote for it. i do know because we worked together paul ryan now knows more about the medicare guarantee and protecting seniors from unscrew up louis insurance practices than he did before. if that is ref
u.s. soldier as wanted to know he was missing for nine months. holt says he was a former soldier working as a civilian contractor in iraq. u.s. officials said all missing soldiers had been accounted for. and no civilian was recently reported missing. in this country, gas prices go up for the ninth straight day. the average is close to $3.84 but some big cities are already seeing gas prices average more than $4 a gallon. the record high was $4.11 back in july of 2008. and extreme weather. while most of the u.s. enjoys unseasonably warm weather, a look at what is going on in northern arizona, a late winter storm is dropping between one and two feet of snow in the area around flagstaff. winds are gusting and roads crews are working overtime. jackie jar ras will jacqui jeras will be here in about 20 minutes from now. robert bales is expected to meet with his legal defense team and in the shooting death of the men, women, and children in kandahar, afghanistan. sergeant bales
organization, i invited ronald reagan s defense secretary casper weinberger to give a speech on campus y where yous american colleges were hotbeds of opposition to the reagan administration, especially to defense policies. sure enough, as soon as weinberger began to speech, a group of students stood up and began to heckle. one after another they rose and chanted a single line. deterence is a lie. i was reminded of that turbulent meeting because i have been listening to these debates over iran s nuclear ambitions. it highlights a strange role reversal in today s foreign policy discourse. it used to be left searching instead for options like the nuclear freeze, and it used to be people on the right who would patiently explain the practical virtues of deterrented. the conservative thinker charles kraut haumer wrote deterrents like old age is intolerable until one considers the alternative. yet, today it is the right that has decided that deterrents is a lie. the american foundat