like mccain is challenged in the republican party we ve got to question where the republican party s moving. let s spend a minute on the white house strategy. the president s on the road next week, he s going to sign the health care bill in northern virginia, he s going to maine for a health care event, out traveling. they re trying to say, and they say the polls show at least a small bit of evidence they re right, people think finally washington did something. they get an uptick here and they re going to keep him moving and try to show that she s got a litt little wind in his back. americans are an optimistic and adjustable people. it s like this thing s law now. we have to learn to live with it. a little bit of that, americans saying there you re not going to cut that same repeal. you saw that with medicare. you ll see republicans campaigning not only on repell but stop then from spending money. so, yes, you re going to see that. i have a tingle if nigh stomach when i saw
arizona as he seeks another term in washington. he called in sarah palin to shore up his support among conservatives. if you want real leadership, and not just rhetoric, not just talk, blah, blah, blah, if you want somebody to fight for what it is that this state and this country needs, i m asking you to vote for john mccain. let s send the maverick back to the senate. remember, in iowa yesterday, president obama said if republicans want to run on repealing health care, they should go for it. senator mccain today returned the volley. i am confident that i am here reflecting the view of the majority of the american people by saying, right, mr. president, we re going to go for it, and we re going to repeal this bill. we re going to stop this spending. national political correspondent jessica yellin on hand and takes us behind the curtain.
he told the government that transparency in the legislative process should be more stop that. he is practicing his spontaneity. it s what you do in politics. you got to have genuine rehearsed spontaneity. it happens all the time. everybody check theirs notes. it s one thing candidates need to learn today is you re always on. maybe he would benefit from a teleprompter which they keep attacking barack obama for. but you re always on. the good news is the mccain-palin team is back. we re going to keep running until they win. that s our strategy. we re going to keep going at it. in the debate in washington this week, the health care bill passes. one of the guys who gets some of the credit is rahm emanuel. he has been working the hill. at one point he wanted to compromise and the speaker kept him going or to the sweeping bill. but now they announced this new s.t.a.r.t. treaty. both the president of the united states and the president of russia have to send it to their legislatur
movement. the tea party happened in my hometown. i ll have to go through the history books. nice jacket, by the way. you like the jacket? republicans wearing leather, we are moving forward. that works. i think this is a real test of what unites republicans and tea party voters greater than what divides them. what unites them is fear washington s out of control, they can say anything, do anything, spend anything, no matter what americans think. and we saw that today in arizona. now, if palin can get those tea party voters there to support mccain, what does that mean? that means republicans may go into this election in a lot of districts like you were just looking at up there united. this could be the sarah palin we had in the campaign that energized those folk but was people had doubts about her, maybe they won t have those doubt. sarah palin with the great taste and no calories. it s sad to see john mccain driven out of the republican party, being challenged inside the repu
create jobs, as the white house says, or kill jobs. that s a republican critique. so far, you might call the health care debate a mini stimulus program. on k. street, washington s lobby corrid corridor, making a killing off the debate. more than 4500 lobbyists hired in 2009 for work related to health reform. do the math. 4500 lobbyists, 535 member of congress. that s more than 8 lobbyists for each member of congress. eight lobbyists for each member of congress. as you digest that, let s turn to our correspondents and share stories tonight that are certain to be headlines tomorrow. congress is heading home for a two-week recess after sending a pack only of so-called fixes to the president but lawmakers failed to ask on another measure atop the agenda.