enough to distinguish democrat, republican, independent and how they split their vote and who s going to end up winning if they go with the so-called tea party candidate. it seems that there s got to be a warning shot just coming out of where the polls stand right now for republicans in washington. well, i think that is the best news for republicans. democrats would be better if that poll had come out about a week later, because you ve got karl rove and his friends now spending $650,000. they are spending a lot of initial money trying to knock davis down. i assume they are going to go after holchul at the end of the republican national party, the congressional committee, never had to expect never expected to spend money in this district. and they re coming in. so there may be a warning shot. but i think voters often use special elections to send protest messages. i think that s part of what
the chair of the senate ethics committee barbara boxer said today that her committee had enough evidence to warrant the consideration of ensign s expulsion if he had not resigned. when you are in a position of trust and power, don t abuse it. don t misuse it. because people can get hurt. very, very hurt. joining me now is melanie sloan, executive director of citizens for responsibility andç ethics in washington. melanie, thank you for joining me tonight. thanks for having me. on page 47 of the senate ethics committee report, section a, you are given full credit for starting this investigation by filing a complaint that says on june 16, 2009, senator ensign held a public press conference in which he admitted he had an extramarital affair with a member of his staff, later
and i should admit it was a mistake and walk away from it. and i presume a lot of folks presume if i did that, that would be good for me politically. but there s only one problem with that. it wouldn t be honest. i in fact did what i believed was right for the people of my state.ç romney went on to discuss his idea for repealing and replacing the obama health care reform law, apparently not having noticed that washington republicans have shifted positions from repeal and replace to repeal and good riddance to the health care reform. i m going to talk today about repealing and replacing president obama s health care system. and i know that some people when i talk about doing that say, wait a second, i have heard that your plan in massachusetts is an awful lot like president obama s plan. and so why is it that you re so anxious to repeal his plan and replace it with something else if it s so much like something did you?