we still don t know a lot about her. maybe we will see more of her. i will say whenever mitt romney talks about ann romney and when she was diagnosed with m.s. and the thing he has done as husband to care for her and ensure she is getting all the medical attention she needs, it is to me some of the most touching stuff he has said on the campaign trail. fits working it s also working because she s more than a person in this situation, she s a metaphor. big wrap against mitt is he s flip-flops and for and against everything over time. he can turn to ann and his marriage and say this has been constant. they ve been married forever. we have to take a break. when we come back we have more on newt s crazy talk and more on the future of the payroll tax cut extension in waug congress. [ male announcer ] tom s discovering that living healthy can be fun. see? he s taking his vitamins. new one a day vitacraves plus omega-3 dha is a complete multivitamin for adults. plus an excellent source
want to talk about the ron paul. we talked little bit about newt gingrich crazy talk but we had reports that resurfaced in the wake of ron paul ss a send dents about things that were said in the ron paul leaflets dib bruit bid his consulting firm during his brief absence from congress. some of the comments include things like this regarding the l.a. riots over the rodney king verdict, quote, order was only restored in l.a. when it came time for the blacks to pick up their welfare checks. and, aides can be transmitted by saliva. ron paul told cnn in 2008 he didn t write them, he doesn t faux who did. his campaign is totally disavowed the comments. what does this mean for someone who is ascended. he is polling in the 21% if iowa is a bit of a anomaly but still the same buy that left the republican party, has been
we are back, and we are waiting for the president to receive the flag from the joint u.s. forces base in iraq, in baghdad, specifically, marking the very end of the iraq war. we were talking earlier before the break about the dynamics in congress and setting that again obama s commander in chief. and we ve known for a while that the house or the republican caucus is in some sort of disarray. what i wanted to talk about a little bit is the tea party, not as it comes into policy making but in terms of the national election. because what it seems we know the republican race to nominate a presidential candidate has been erratic, at best. i want to talk to you guys about how potent you think the tea party is from nominating a nominee. the straw poll is split. there is 31% of gingrich, 28% for bachmann, 15% for santorum,
he s at andrews air force base. he will be receiving the u.s. joint forces flag in baghdad k57 capping off the iraq war. luke russert, we still have you from capitol hill. i want to talk to you about the tea partiers in congress. if you re a republican and you ve been there and doing the bli business and you know how this works and they re in there koging up the wheels, is there any sense of resentment among long-term republican congress votes and the tea partiers, johnny come latelies who is gumming up the machine, if you will? sure. those are split in two camps. half of them really like the tea party because they are very much conservatives and they see, okay, here s this new blood that can finally prepet chew wait all of these conservative ideas we ve had on the back bench for years and can finally bring them to fruition because we have the numbers. the other group says these folks have no idea how washington
if the tea party gets their way taxpayers will go up for 160 million american families. other guy is mitt romney? where is he? how come he s not slowing any leadership? maybe he ought to tell us what heities about this. bill, let s be fair. at the end of the day, john bane someone has to be the adult in the room up there and say, guys, you re not getting everything you want for cyst nas. you i think for republicans either way it s going to be something that democrats are going to be able to spend reflecting poorly on republicans. no matter which way you throw it it can be seen republicans in this time of need are not helping out the middle class. this is bad for republicans and everybody needs to get their act together. i agree with meghan there. it s difficult for me i think most of them know that this is not going to play, you know, not going to look to voters good and yet they have this group of people, tea party people in the house who they can t control. it s a big p