billion to $10 billion each over the next ten years to do their part in implements obama care. so republicans are going to try to cut back on that money as a way of weakening the law. do you love that? i love it. i can tell. the hair just went up on the back of my neck. the bottom line, mike, it s a good campaign line, but there s no reality in repealing and replacing. right. but they do have a very specific plan if republicans get a claimer or two, they do find ways to weaken it and to delay it and make it harder for president obama to run on it as a big accomplishment. mike, thanks. thank you, mike. you have good stuff on steve rat ner s new book out today. overhaul. thank you very much. time for a quick look at sports. if you went to bed early, you missed the manning bowl. brothers peyton and eli going against each other.
was place under cover by the kansas bureau of investigations. to gather information inside a book-making ring that was also allegedly selling drugs. i got too close to some significant people in the community who were involved in these activities and abruptly was dismissed from my position. dan maes essentially says he was tapped by the state version of the fbi in kansas to go undercover and that undercover assignment, busting a drug dealing book-making ring, got him too close to official corruption and so he, upstanding undercover dan maes was fired. very dramatic, right? tell me more. the maes campaign did say more. they sent out a fund-raising letter last week from dan maes wife. quote, i know dan to have stood up to corruption as a young police officer. this stance of integrity cost him his job. it s a great campaign line, right? brave man going undercover, fired for his stance against corruption, a made for politics storybook tale that now has to
to gather information inside a book-making ring that was also allegedly selling drugs. i got too close to some significant people in the community who were involved in these activities and abruptly was dismissed from my position. dan maes essentially says he was tapped by the state version of the fbi in kansas to go undercover and that undercover assignment, busting a drug dealing book-making ring, got him too close to official corruption and so he, upstanding undercover dan maes was fired. very dramatic, right? tell me more. the maes campaign did say more. they sent out a fund-raising letter last week from dan maes wife. quote, i know dan to have stood up to corruption as a young police officer. this stance of integrity cost him his job. it s a great campaign line, right? brave man going undercover, fired for his stance against corruption, a made for politics storybook tale that now has to go back to whatever storybook
the republican party adopted newt gingrich s ideas they would be in a better position in 2010? basically saying if it had any ideas they d be in a better position in 2010. look, i think the president s hit up on the republican weakness. the fact that they have now publicly said repetedly that they want to go back to george w. bush s policies, and the fact they ve put forward no ideas whatsoever in the congress in the last year and a half, and stopped all obama s ideas means that this is the right line of attacks. and i want to see a harry truman campaign. you can t campaign against the do-nothing congress because the democrats have done a lot. but they ve done everything without any republican help at all. it s a great thing, and i agree with a great line of attack, and i agree with sam stein, the only problem with it is he s got to do it four times a day. i mean four times a week, every week from now till the election. that may be a great campaign line, but when you have somebod
longers that infrastructure of party money and the party establishments and behind him. but this this just too early to write it off. very courageous move. he has this fund-raiser scheduled for miami beach tomorrow night. what do you think his tag line will be? campaign line at how he goes about recharacterizing himself? well, you know, i think that what i didn t see in his announcement speech was sort of enough of an emphasis on why he left the party. why he has always you know, he has been independent of the republican party now for some time. citing with democrats on many big initiative in florida as well as supporting president obama on the stimulus plan. making the case that the party moved away from him and he wants that there is a growing middle in the country, more independent registered voters registered independent than ever before and that this is the time for a new movement in the middle. i think if he can make that case and in a very important swi