dick cheney. i think the vice president was disappointed that in the second term we did a number of things with which he didn t agree. and the best of our getting to know series. i didn t want to be a nun and i didn t want to be a congresswoman. i m candy crowley and this is state of the union. the politics of the battle over the extension of the payroll tax goes something like this the president won, republicans lost. may not have been the politically smartest thing in the world but let me tell you what i think our members waged a good fight. we were able to come to an agreement. some democrats suggest the payroll tax cut battle was a turning point for the president they feared had lost his spine, his magic and his chance for re-election. republicans worry their tea party wing which wanted to fight this one out has become a weight. earlier i spoke to one of the longest serving republicans in the senate, dick lugar of indiana, who faces a tea party challen
independent we need to be oil independent. we can do that with all the unbelievable strides we have made. bill: a lot of russians making a lot of money these days. she says she is not running but not everyone is taking no for an answer. a new tv ad set to air in iowa saying pretty please to sarah palin. we ll show it to you. martha: how about this this morning, an 8-year-old child taken away from his mother and placed in foster care because he is overweight. can the state take your child because he is obese? we re going to debate that coming up. be right back.