to win the white house and kick barack obama out. cheering them on, their powerful allies and fierce critics. the grassroots movement putting a bold stamp on this election. the tea party. tonight s players i love america. i ll fight for america. mitt romney. the early front-runner. obama care. focused on attacking the president. now, turning his attention to a more immediate opponent. i m going to be a pro business president. and i m not going to make any apologies about it. rick perry, the newcomer. he got a late start, then surged to the front of the pack. with a conservative voice, folksy and brash. michele bachmann. the firebrand. we re here to win. she aced an early test in iowa. proving she s a top tier contender. as well as a lightning rod. ron paul! herman cain! the rest of the field in search of a breakthrough. jon huntsman. the diplomat. carving a more moderate path to try to defeat his exboss, the president. ron paul, the libertarian. billin
dan said he s changing positions. i wish he d change positions on health care. i wish he d come out and said, look, we tried to do something good in massachusetts, if hasn t worked out as intended and what we promised income. and i think he d be in a much better position if he d been honest about the practice. one other, the book no apology a stubborn man, although he s smart as well. paul: can he overcome romney care in massachusetts? yet to be seen. certainly if he were the republican nominee, much harder to campaign against barack obama. kim, among the other republican candidates so far. tim pawlenty seems to be the most serious. how do you size up his campaign so far? again, tim pawlenty, this comes back to the name recognition part. that s his hardest challenge right now, not a lot of people know him for the former governor of minnesota.
i don t think anyone believes that you can give health insurance to everybody in the country, 30 million people, give them all health insurance and it s not going to cost anything. as a matter of fact, we re going to make money. the only way that works if he taxes the american people and the health care system a lot. and if he taxes the system a lot, those costs get passed on to everybody who uses the system or has insurance. it s obviously a very expensive plan. it s going to be a back-breaker on the u.s. economy. larry: we have a question submitted to larry king live facebook page. please ask mr. romney if he thinks the lawsuit filed by 13 i think it s 14 now challenging the constitutionality of this new law has any chance? i do think it has merit. and we ll see exactly how the framers of that particular suit bring their action. but i think in this case, you go to excuse me, the tenth amendment of the constitution in which it says that power is not expressly given to th
because of this. raising taxes is something that democrats love. and the congressional budget office just carries out the arithmetic. larry: mostly on people with a lot of money. mostly on the suppliers of equipment and procedures that go into health care. for instance, i read an article today about a company called zolle in massachusetts. they make cardiac defibrillator. they made $9.5 million last year. they think they re going to have to be paying 5 to $10 million a year in new taxes. what that means is they can t keep on with business the way they have in the past. it has a major impact on businesses. and by the way, that will filter through to individuals who have to pay medical bills. those prices are going to go up. this bill, let me tell you, the taxes are just one part of the problem. that s a big problem. number two, think about that. larry: the book is no apology. it s number one. let s listen to what president obama had to say about the new health care reform bill
being bipartisan, without getting people to across the aisle to work with me. he chose not to put forward the plans by senator wyden and senator wyatt, a bipartisan plan by republicans and democrats. he said no, i m doing it my own way. larry: are you saying you endorse what mccain said? i don t have a comment on what he said. i haven t seen it specifically. larry: he said he would not cooperate. i certainly understand why republican senators in washington have said this president has so violated the operating trust that goes between these parties and the way the senate works that there are of course going to be consequences of that. larry: any comment on that limbaugh said that you re risking your political career? you know, i risk my career all the time. this book of mine, i late i lay out answers. i talk about social security, medicare, medicaid, dramatic changes in education. a lot of people who say you can t talk about those things in this country and have any politica