okay? you got to sit next to each other. yes. why do both of bush s cms, health and human services directors favor this kind of reform and republicans in congress don t? what kind of reform? like the health care bill. i don t understand it, what health care bill. george h.w. bush what did they like about it? bl they like that it does something about making insurance available for more americans that aren t covered. what it does as an american you are forced to buy something that the federal government cannot mandate that you have to buy. i think the supreme court will decide that question. that s where it s going. we want to see how anthony kennedy feels that morning when he wakes up. that s when we ll know. chris van hollen, thank you. chris, thank you for being here, we look forward to seeing you sitting next to the man. i need a date. his blind date.
think he ll be a one-term president. cheney said that president obama has learned from experience that some of the bush administration s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, including not shutting down the prison at guantanamo bay. the vice president said, quote, i think he s learned that he s not going to be able to close guantanamo. that s if you didn t have it, you would have to create one like that. you ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are bond and determined to try and kill americans. we re going to have the full interview later on in the show. talk to jamie as well. now time for the must-read op-eds. your in politico really takes the sarah palin conversation to the next level, which i really appreciate. and you write this, joe. now that the right has proved to the world that it was wronged, this would be a good time to prevent the next tragedy from destroying its political momentum. despite what we eventually
are very few things in this life worse than the continued assault, the electronic assault on people. that s she s caused it herself, but it happens every single day. why? she s irrelevant. she s going nowhere. how much are we a part of that? i m going to play a sound bite. hold on, hold on, hold on. i m going to play her talking about president obama s speech because chris wants me to, not because i really want to. then i have a question for you. i d kind of like to hear it. i thought there were parts of it that really hit home. that all of us can hold on to and can and can live out. obviously. i agree with those who have said that the the setting was a bit bizarre. it was like a pep rally, kind of like a campaign stop. that was unfortunate because that really did the setting d did distract away from the message. i don t want to relitigate how we felt about her when she first came upon the scene.
instinctively don t like her. it is not sarah palin that i don t like. that s not what i m saying. it s her actions. i know that sounds hokey. but there are people, and mika and i saw it, the first day sarah palin got out on the stage and they hated her without even knowing who she was. i bet she s a good mom. i bet she s a good wife. so don t hate the player, hate the game. right. she stumbled into a game that she doesn t understand. and she s keeping bad company right now with the harshest voices on the right. well and sometimes it s sad. you ve just got to say i m sorry. hold on. let it happen. you know he played at rush limbaugh s wedding. sorry seems to be the hardest word i just got to say, one of the most overlooked, great albums of the 70s came out right after
that ought to be cut the hell out, that are inhibiting all kinds of things. get rid of them. it doesn t cost him anything. it wins him friends. it s a good, simple, political move. put it in the right place. and the other thing we forget in looking all of these numbers, more important than those numbers we put up there, is that the presidential election, unlike the midterm, is done under the electorate college rules. so what s the question to chuck? no, i mean, i think i ll say this. it struck me as remember al gore reinventing government? you had al gore went on letterman and he said, you know, we re going to break things. he broke an ash tray on letterman. the point was they were trying to send the message, we re not your typical democrats. we re not just trying to grow government. and i think it does bother the president. it does bother some folks inside