Has talked about putting a hold on that nomination. Any word on that right now . We are working on that. The may 1 say, thank you for having me on. People in arkansas to watch c span lot, i want to thank cspan for what they do. Back to the tom wheeler nomination, basically there is sentiment within the senate that we ought to repair this with the republican nominee. Have acans would like to republican to go alongside the process. The problem is the we have not thecially released republican name that they want nominated. Hopefully we will get this done quickly and senator rockefeller has said this publicly that he wanted to expedite that. My view is that you do not have to pare them. It ink that if we can do such a way that it does not , it will beme protracted and i would go ahead to try to get tom wheeler on. One of the concerns expressed was about restricting political speech. I do not really share the concern. Job, sec. Hard people do not always appreciated. It is one of those jobs
georgia s georgia megachurch, rick santorum seemed to draw a parallel between the late entry of the u.s. into the fight against nazi germany and what s at stake in this year s presidential election. america sat from 1940 when france fell to december of 41 and did almost nothing. we are a hopeful people. we think, well, you know, it will get better. yeah he is not i mean, he s nice guy. i mean, it won t be near as bad as what we think. i mean, you know, this will be okay. sometimes, it s not okay. okay. let s bring in our panel. joe williams is a white house reporter for politico, susan page is the washington bureau chief for usa today and dan ballz, the washington post chief correspondent and author of the take. welcome all. before i jump into this, your come slum all based on this santorum electable? dan ballz, one more comment he made about public education, not
he has got a big, big margin in michigan, largely because he doesn t speak conservative with an accent like romney does. romney has conservative but a massachusetts accent on top of it. people don t feel he is authentic this is an opportunity for santorum to show how authentic he is. the white house is licking their chops with this one and you saw that with robert gibbs yesterday. you write about michigan, can he win it, can he not? even his chief, brooks partison in here the final analysis, i would bet he is going to carry michigan but then would he bet the farm and he said, well, i would bet my wife s half of the farm, he said laughingly. so he laughed when he said and then he paused and he said, you know, really, i think he is going to win michigan because i think he saw this quote being repeated, just as you, and creating problem for romney, whom he is backing. how much of the auto bailout, dan, do you think could even if there is 5% of just angry auto workers who don t nor
just federal funding, but state funding. where did they come up with that public education and big education bureaucracies was the rule in america? y yes, the government can help but the idea that the federal government should be running schools, frankly much less that the state government should be running schools, is anachronistic. dan ballz, the state government should be running schools, rick santorum has been saying plenty of these things on the campaign trail for the entire time he has been running but now doing it with a lot of scrutiny. as you write this week, you know, is he can he handle the focus? well, there s no question that he is a very conservative candidate, many ways that is one of the things that has put him where he is today as a real challenger to mitt romney. this comment yesterday about public education, i think americans believe in public
education. don t necessarily think that the federal government should be running things, as he said, and i think democrats and republicans agree on that, but the idea that states and local government in conjunction with one another are not at the basis of public education seems to me to be a surprising statement that a lot of people are going to disagree w. the defining of rick santorum, if he somehow got the nomination, dan wrote, a quote of one strategist saying this santorum would become a martian to women in the suburbs. if you combine the statements of whether you should get prenatal prenatal test for your pregnancies combined with this education thing, the two issues this go right to the heart of moms. they do it s a it s easy to see how this helps him with conservative republican primary voters like you have in michigan and georgia and how it makes you gives you a human hurdle in trying to appeal to independent women in a general election. this was a week and a time wh