negotiate some sort of compromise. former majority leader trent lottt says there is an easier way. it s not that difficult. it s called leadership. even if reid pulls the nuclear trigger no assurance of efficient governance. the senate has not passed a budget in three-and-a-half years. all that requires is a simple majority vote. bret? bret: doug, thank you. arizona republican governor jan brewer decided against creating a state-run health insurance exchange. president healthcare law requires states to either set up their own, or use the one created by the federal government. soon to be created. brewer says there are too many costs and questions associated with the state run exchange. a new gallup poll says most americans are against guaranteed government healthcare. number from the annual survey are 54-44. gallup says this is the first result against government healthcare since 2000. the head of the postal service says the agency can be $8 billion in the black each year. if
his surrogates use that. bret: whether romney can deliver an attack or have the surrogates do it for him, there is concern in the romney camp. former senator trent lottt romney supporters early on and still, said this. i disagreed with the strategy speaking of romney. i think he could have closed the deal out before now, he run risk averse campaign. i would have liked for him to have had a higher profile, been more aggressive it didn t wind up as romney and one other. is it that now, a.b. can he go on the attack in time before iowa. it s always a two-man race. romney knew that the party was going to resist him. they would be looking for other choices initially. voting has started and it s time to attack. i recommend surrogates like tim pawlenty, chris christie, dan quayle or a super pac with
surged by the tea partys. the latest public policy poll shows gingrich doubles romney over voters over 65. among tea partiers, gingrich leads michele bachmann and paul. romney barely registers. iowa republicans now think gingrich has a slightly better chance of beating president obama than romney. rick perry and paul, not so much. romney was in arizona this afternoon. collecting the endorsement of former vice president dan quayle. conservative values need to return to the white house. and mitt romney has those conservative values to take america in a new and better direction. in mishome state of massachusetts today, the secretary of state ruled that more than 450 boxes of records from romney time as governor which he kept private under state executive privilege must now be made public. gold mine for opponents. romney backers are rattled by the gingrich surge. trent lottt wrote i have disagree agreed with his strategy. he could have close the deal out before now and he has run too
i am waiting to see if he or his surrogates use that. bret: whether romney can deliver an attack or have the surrogates do it for him, there is concern in the romney camp. former senator trent lottt romney supporters early on and still, said this. i disagreed with the strategy speaking of romney. i think he could have closed the deal out before now, he run risk averse campaign. i would have liked for him to have had a higher profile, been more aggressive it didn t wind up as romney and one other. is it that now, a.b. can he go on the attack in time before iowa. it s always a two-man race. romney knew that the party was going to resist him. they would be looking for other choices initially. voting has started and it s time to attack. i recommend surrogates like tim pawlenty, chris christie, dan quayle or a super pac with
about who we love. and that s why i think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong. well, that s my view. let me go to alex wagner on ç that. that kind of answer, i think, will work with the younger audience. i think that older, more traditional people who ve been talked to people like people like trent lottt the former republican leader who keeps talking about like it s coke or pepsi, like we made our choice in the lionel richie song have, a certain sort of different view completely of something to me that seems like common sense. but that answer, how s it going to work? did you want to go to me or joanne. joe. are. joanne. oh i m sorry, yeah i think you know, yes, i think that young people definitely have a lot more liberal attitude toward things like you know, gay marriage, toward don t ask, don t tell, for gays in the military, et cetera. so i think that barack obama is speaking to that sort of real cultural difference. i think that is the way t