tea party, because of their huge spending, when republicans were doing it. and i think now it s they want a lot quickly, and it s a lot for the establishment to kind of get on board with, because they re used to having a blank check. quick question. i hear you, and ben makes the point that it s a fantastic principled position, which you re making. is it politically effective or is it too extreme? well, when you look at the exit polling from november 2nd i think it s very politically effective. when after november 2nd everybody leaving the polls, they said the economy was their chief concern. and people were more scared about the economy now than this he were four and five years ago. and they wanted to see reduction in spending. voters didn t outline how they expected to see that happening. that obviously is the trick. everybody wants to see reduction in spending until you start asking them exactly what they want to do. painful cuts. the tea party held a rally this week and
mccaskill. you have to think, too, with a state like missouri, a very purple state. prop c, the piece of legislation that passed into law which exempted missourians from the health care mandate, that passed like by 3-1 in every single county in missouri. a lot of democrats voted for that. that s claire mccaskill s base. we re seeing this over and over again in different states. soy think there are a lot of vulnerable senators. it could pass. cnn s most recent polling, have you health care reform law, pretty unpopular. 54% oppose it by standing in the way of repeal. two things, anderson. one is, come on. that it has zero chance of passing in the senate. it s not going to pass in the senate and certainly not going to get a presidential signature. so it is just political t is just political theater. the other part about this is, you know, where s this broad mandate for reforming sort of repealing health care? it wasn t in the exit polling and cnn polling, 54%, that s not a broad man
it can pass the republican house but it is certain to fail, if not in the democratic senate it won t survive a veto. why spend the valuable time of your beloved house of representatives that way in? you have to understand, in my opinion, obama care is the biggest job killer we have in america today. it s a weight over every employer that we have, thereby, requiring them to hold back their willingness to hire people. where are you getting the notion, as you said again this morning, the american people want it repealed? our exit polling was about 48%, 47%, very evenly split on that. i have talked to tens of thousands of people all across the country last year as i was out helping my candidate. i have been from one corner of my district to the other. it s pretty clear to me that this law ought to be repealed. bill: speaker boehner should have been better prepared a
down a little bit just like you got knocked sometimes in your own life, but here in rhode island we don t mind getting knocked down, you know why, because we get right back up. bill: caprio took a bit of a hit in the polls after that shove it comment, that latest average has chafee with an eight-point lead over john robitaille. martha: you know where you want to be a front row seat? right here. bill: right here. martha: we re going to kick off coverage for the midterm elections. can you believe it s finally here, folks? it is tomorrow, okay? right before that, 8:00 p.m., bret baier and megyn kelly will anchor our coverage, we ll be joined by sarah palin, karl rove, chris wallace, too many wonderful names to mention, including bill hemmer and myself, doing coverage for you tomorrow night and we are looking forward to that. it will be fun. bill: you re doing the exit polling, judging how americans people. feel. martha: seeing how they feel
on the races across the country. he won t be glued to a bank of television monitors. he will be listening for a message from american voters. he will respond to that message in his news conference tomorrow. today, in a youtube broadcast, the president said that the change he promised voters two years ago was on the line, given the republicans promise to try and roll back the budget to 2008 levels and repeal elements of health care reform. shepard? shepard: wendell, what are we likely to hear from the president specifically tomorrow? do we know? reporters will certainly ask the president where is he willing to compromise with republicans and certainly unlikely to negotiate through us to tell us exactly where he is willing to compromise. what instead we ll probably here is the republicans new found power in congress gives them responsibility to offer ideas to create jobs and cut the deficit and a responsibility as well to live with america s verdict on those ideas. shepard? shepard