you can donate a stitch in america s flag for the 2012 olympic games in london. help raise our flag, add your stitch at teamusa.org. . if could you change anything about the first lady job, what would you do? we can t like sneak out often on our own without security and motorcades and people with us, right? it s hard to sneak around and do what you want. i ve done it a couple of times. but one fantasy i have, and the secret service they kept looking at me because they think i might do it is walk right out the front door and just keep walking, stop and have ice cream. yeah, go shopping. i can t do that. the blood pressure of a lot of agents went up, but let s
saying go shopping. our deep dive into the politics of health care is coming up. we are back in 30 seconds. next week may be the single most important week in the history of the obama presidency. the supreme court hears oral arguments on the president s signature issue, health care. today marks the two-year anniversary of president obama signing that health care act into law. critics like to call it
out. my apologies sir. i am usually much better behaved than that. and editor and publisher of the nation and the editor of the change i believe in. steve is back. political writer for salon.com. our starting point this morning is the national polls and the polls show rick santorum is surging. up by double dinlg jimts. sometimes we say surge and it s not really a surge but i think this time it s fair to say surge. nine months before the election democrats are going on the attack. there are plans to hit both now rick santorum and mitt romney and there s a new e-mail on the democratic national committee yesterday that said this about santorum. quote, rick santorum has embraced the same philosophy that created the economic crisis. his tax plan would primarily benefit the very wealthy while adding $900 billion to the national deficit. it would be a disaster for middle class families. let s get right to jennifer, democratic strategist, former white house deputy communicat
was odd and wondered why the president s christmas card highlighted his dog instead of traditions like family, faith, and freedom. well, today there s even more evidence that the republicans are anti-dog. they re upset with president obama spending quality time with good old bo. well, the president has been stuck in washington, d.c. because john boehner s obstructionist tea partiers are at it again while his family is out in hawaii vacationing. so the president took his dog christmas shopping. i mean, what else are you going to do? you re home alone. you ve got the dog. but some republicans, they just couldn t handle that. i saw the president out yesterday doing his christmas shopping. saw he brought his dog with him. you know, we re here. he could bring his dog up here. we are pet-friendly. i ve never taken my dog shopping. i mean, he took his dog shopping. i think that the president should play much more of a lead role rather than go shopping for his dog. now, we just played
here s house majority leader eric cantor and senator john mccain earlier today saying just that. i think that the president should play much more of a lead role rather than go shopping for his dog. maybe call these people over to the white house, as the previous four presidents that i ve served under, would have done. i saw the president out yesterday doing his christmas shopping, saw he brought his dog with him. you know, we re here. he could bring his dog up here. we are pet friendly. that s pretty geeky stuff, if you think about these two guys, giving him trouble for going christmas shopping for an hour or two. let s see, the republicans went after franklin roosevelt for his dog in 44, and nixon played a big defender of his dog back in 1950, checkers, of course. now president obama s getting attacked by republicans for his dog. human tricks, they never change. up next, let s go to the videotape, the top political videos of 2011 on youtube. you re watching hardball. by the