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Because from simple calculati s calculations, we are dumping enough carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, were in a dangerous realm where we may really have trouble in the next coming decades. >> is that what youre hoping to frame in your testimony on capitol hill today? what do you hope to accomplish? because this is not only a complicated issue, but a controversial one at times. >> it has been controversial. and many of the skeptics have been unfairly ignored. i think they raised good issues tha...

Answer that fits with what rock solid main street republicans have been telling us for a couple of years. >> thats what i want to know, michael steele. because after the debate my father said well, hes the only one on that stage that doesnt pander. and certainly i like that answer, but im not the answer hes going for. >> not even close. michael? >> no, i dont think so. >> so where does it stand in terms of the base? in terms of the audience hes hoping to -- >> i think the broader base is as joe ...

Tried to do at the debate was, a, cover a lot of ground and require the candidates not to rekite whatever talking points they brought on stage, which is their right and privilege, but to force them to think about issues as theyre likely to confront them if they -- >> what was the news? what did you think the news out of that was? if you had to pick one or two answers? >> well, debates often give you impressions of where candidates are. and if you look at herman cains lack of comfortability. he s...

Hes on pretty stable ground there. and the economy, not so much. >> michael steele, the take away if you looked at what some of the conservative people were talking about, erick erickson blogging, the big loser of the night, herman cain. would you agree? >> i would. i would. >> he was in over his head, wasnt he? >> it was the first question out of the box. the first thing i wrote down was clue. the problem is, you cannot answer foreign policy answers with a sound bite. you cannot say, for exampl...

And have you had -- on the other side skeptics wanting to burn you at the stake as a heretic? youve been used as a political football, im sure. >> well, the reaction -- the political, the bloggers reaction has been very volatile, let me simply say that. with many -- >> what a surprise. >> sir, please dont read that. weve learned. >> dont read comments. >> especially the comments. >> i dont. >> you cant. >> i learned -- >> searing, disturbing. >> i bring that up because you were checking out the ...

>> i want to talk about one of the perhaps most controversial aspects that you bring to the race, the massachusetts health care plan that you led and supported. a lot of criticism for it that it really the birth of obama care and we had this sound bite from jay carney this week and lets listen to it and let you respond. the former governor of massachusetts said the other day, the idea for a health care plan was not mine alone. a conservative think tank, im told that newt gingrich, im told come u...

Will be three weeks, between the well turn our attention to two different things. wins what everybody reports in terms of money, thats going to be a major how well theyre doing, and second of all whether or not anybody gives a substantive policy speech between now and the next debate that draws attention. back-and-forth of the day and day, and the only way that herman cain can affect his mistake, which im sure he wont make. >> greta: meanwhile while the attention is on the bad performance by gov...

Pawlenty three or four years ago was saying pretty much the same thing, he was open to the idea of the individual mandate. the history of that suggests the individual mandate was pretty much a conservative idea. as recently as 15 years ago in the united states congress, you had a fair number of republicans in the senate like bob dole, orrin hatch, saying you know what, if were doing health care reform, do it with the individual mandate. it speaks to the season were in right now, which every repu...

Obama care, mitt romney last week and newt gingrich, we havent spoken about, not quite sure where to put him, both said the individual mandate makes sense as a matter of being the sennial premise of health care. what do you make of that, steve? >> also news today that tim pawlenty three or four years ago was saying pretty much the same thing, he was open to the idea of the individual mandate. the history of that suggests the individual mandate was pretty much a conservative idea. as recently as ...

>> shes back after a season of reality tv. sarah palin returns to what she does best. >> wow. >> scaring the heck out of some republicans. >> tea party americans, youre winning. >> is she the king maker or the queen? and baseball and ponzi schemes. >> i got it, i got it, i got it! >> jeff toobin say the new york mets and bernie madoff used to be on the same team. can the mets survive and win again, or will they strike out? >> youre out of here! then, the financial meltdown. whos th...