most talked about moments when all eight republicans stood on the stage with me in tampa, florida, this week. governor perry, speaking of social security, you said in the past it s a ponzy scheme. an absolute failure. unconstitutional. but today you wrote an article in usa today saying it must be saved and reformed. very different tone. why? it s time for us to get back to the constitution. and a program that s been there 70 or 80 years, obviously we re not going to take that program away. but for people to stand up and support what they did in the 30s or in the 2010s is not appropriate for america. the question is, do you still believe that social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago when your book came out and return to the states or do you want a treat for them? i think we ought to have a conversation we re having that right now, governor. we re running for president. we ll finish this conversation. but the issue is, are ther
he has three words of advice today for the obama white house to try to salvage the party s chances of victory in 2012. those words, fire, indict and fight. james carville is joining us now. james, you created quite a stir in this article you ve written for cnn.com. let me read a couple of lines. among other things you say, what should the white house do now? one word came to mind, panic. this is what i would say to president barack obama. the time has come to demand a plan of action that requires a complete change from the direction you are headed. what are you talking about? well, simply this. we lost two elections tuesday night. we lost 65 elections in november. it s sliding back. macroeconomics say there is 1/3 chance we are going into recession. you look how crazy the opposition party is cheering death. this is not working, not politically, economically or anything. bring in a new team and indicate to people you get it, they understand you were dealt a tough hand, b
and so the audience loved the question, you did, too. yeah, i saw that and i said today, we have to talk about this tomorrow. there it is, that s the embodiment of the tea party there, a young man who stands up and says exactly what the tea party needs to know. how much of my money should i keep. and there it s fantastic. congratulations, tea party, congratulations, i can t remember the guy s name. i think, greg, do you think they prepared for that question? i don t know. can i go to my and we had one other one. my favorite moment was john huntsman, john huntsman trying to make an obscure reference, go for it. i mean, to hear these two go at it over here is almost incredible. governor romney who called it a fraud in his book no apology , i don t know if that was written by kurt cobain or not. he was trying to make a clumsy reference to a nirvana song. like your friend s parent trying to be cool, you know, drops references to owning motocross and harvey david
issues this had the making offing of a political fire storm, kids, sexually transmitted disease and government telling parents how they should protect their own children. the issue, of course is texas governor rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human paploma virus, hpv, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later, the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry as someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now, after the debate, she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation, something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is, by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more on that in a minute. but first bachmann and perry going hea
debate. an issue that had all the makings of a political firestorm. kids, sexually transmitted disease, the government telling them how to protect their kids. at issue is rick perry s 2007 executive order requiring girls to get vaccinated against human papilloma virus, a virus that can cause cervical answer. that executive order never saw the light of day. perry signed it. two months later the state legislature turned it over and it died on the vine. despite that fact in the debate michele bachmann tried to paint rick perry is someone who wanted innocent little girls to be held down by the arm of big government and forcibly stuck with needles in their arms. now after the debate she s even trying to raise fears that the hpv vaccine can cause mental retardation. something she s repeated on television at least twice already. that is by all accounts, just flat-out wrong. more on that in a minute. but first bachmann and perry going head-to-head last night. i m a mom with three c