well, the easiest and most immediate cut would be obamacare. the american people don t want it. it was pushed through on a totally partisan basis. the cost is almost $100 billion a year. it s an expense we simply cannot afford. that was mitt romney talking to radio iowa. staying consistent on his pledge to repeal the president s health care law. house republicans don t want to wait for election results. democrats say tomorrow s repeal is the 31st crack at killing all or parts of the law. kathy mcmorris rogers is vice chair of the house republican congress and the highest ranking republican woman in congress. she joins me now. good morning. good morning. all right. i want to ask about this repeal effort. since there isn t going to be an alternative of what gets put into place, isn t this nothing more than a symbolic vote to set up the fall campaign?
that s been true of every presidential candidate dating back to mr. romney s father. i think that given that a big part of his argument about why he should be president has to do with his private business success. i understand why it s important for him to go ahead and answer some questions. all of us have gone through it. in a radio interview with radio iowa, romney fired back at the democratic attempts to draw attention to the, quote, swiss bank account issue. i realize that the president s failure to actually reignite the economy makes it hard for him to discuss his own record. and so he s going to try and attack me on every personal basis he can come up with. all the taxes are paid, as appropriate. all of them have been reported to the government. there s nothing hidden there. you see they are trying to basically say mitt romney who looks for any loophole he can to
they want to do two things. they want to make sure women have access to birth control and that s what we fight for every day. the more you reduce unintended pregnancy you reduce the need for abortion. and they want women to have access to basic health care. in this election, unfortunately, the positions that mr. romney is taking have nothing to do with abortion. they have to do with throwing women off basic family planning, birth control and cancer screening. that s a concern to women and men across all party lines. president of planned parenthood. thanks for coming on this morning. good to see you, chuck. up next, leaving the party. independents are the voting group on the rise in a bunch of key battleground states. our political panel will discuss what that could mean in november. first, white house soup of the day oh, my late father would love it. this was his single favorite soup.
election cycle. what s he going to do in a second term? it s a question that when asked of me if i m doing a panel or something, i can t fully he s not outlined what a second term will look like? what s fascinating about the poll is people give him credit for concrete economic plans. he has an advantage over mitt romney. people favor his plans. they don t like mitt romney s plans. it s a parlor game to talk about whether or not he s laid it out. i expect that in the convention. that s the appropriate place to spell out the ideas. spell out what the second obama term is going to look like. people are giving him credit for that already in this poll. that goes to the issue that romney faces that he s not putting enough meat on the bones. clearly voters will uh punish one or the other for not doing that. any election with an incumbent is about their record and what they have done and do they deserve another term. independent voters aren t as
another dipg. another nail in the coffin. you bet. up next, congress getting ready to repeal the health care law again. will the 31st time be the charm? we ll ask a top republican in the house why this time will somehow be different. plus, perry versus the president. why he s saying no to $70 billion in federal funding. first a look ahead at the schedule. both the president and mitt romney today, as you know, hit two states that both of them need iowa and colorado in order to make the path to 270 a lot less complicated. watching the daily rundown on msnbc. aspirin, really?