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The liberal obama administration has greatly expanded federal power into decision-making about health, energy delivery and how private business must be run. the president is also using executive privilege like richard nixon used it. to hide federal screw ups. mr. obama is basically saying to the country that he, and the democratic party, are going to change the way the u.s.a. does business, receives healthcare. treats the environment. and earns a living. the president is taking from the affluent...

>> well, unfortunately i think this is a huge step in the wrong direction. i was governor with tommy thompson from wisconsin and john an -- angler and we worked with bill clinton to get the well form -- welfare reform passed and it was a program based on job training and work, and we helped move millions of people off the welfare roles and into permanent employ meant. we reduced the cost of welfare and medicaid as a result of it. it was very successful. now we see this administration trying to g...

Helping people to move from welfare to work, not making people permanently dependent on the government welfare program. we know that didnt work back in the 1970s and 1980s and finally changing it in the 1990s. this program has worked. it is absolutely a terrible step in the wrong direction. >> governor, isnt it unusual for a republican like yourself to be arguing that it is federal bureaucrats in washington with the rules they have laid out for this know better than the governors in the states a...

The liberal obama administration has greatly expanded federal power into decision-making about health, energy delivery and how private business must be run. the president is also using executive privilege like richard nixon used it. to hide federal screw ups. mr. obama is basically saying to the country that he, and the democratic party, are going to change the way the u.s.a. does business, receives healthcare. treats the environment. and earns a living. the president is taking from the affluent...

Care whether they choose to go to the doctor or not is another story. >> it is that type of coverage. that helps with the cost. >> at what price, cheryl. at the price of giving up individual freedom. to me, it is not a fair trade and not a cost saver and is building. in europe they call it the lost generation. people brought up with the notion of right to x, yz. that is what obama care s. >> can i point out. >> it is not being sold. why are we selling now freedom to go be. why is it promoting th...

Get the electric chair. much. >> fluke pointed out her parents >> congressman what does it take have a different political to get him in front of the house judiciary committee? >> well, the chair of the house persuasion than she does but that doesnt stop limbaugh from judiciary committee would have making hateful comments. to ask him to come and of course if he doesnt, the judiciary >> okay, let me ask you a committee is one of the house question. i might be surprised with the committees that do...

Have supported the payroll tax in the past. a number of republican candidates support the payroll tax cut. why are you so dead-set against it? >> because both the democratic and republican bills will cost social security $250 billion. the program is not a welfare program. its a retirement security program. paid by contributions. and we shouldnt cut contributions. one of the lessons of europe is that you cant run a retirement security program without contributions. right now, 10,000 americans qua...

Of the ten senators who reject the plan, they dont like messing with money that is supposed to go to social security. republican mark kirk of illinois. >> i think 60 days from now, more and more americans will realize this is a gimmick. that its pushing social security further in the red. that seniors should remind their legislators that they are not on a welfare program. its a retirement security program and should run off contribution of the workers. it shouldnt depend on the financial strengt...

And its just not -- its not intelligent. its not the way to run a government that has that huge deficit issues like we have right now. look, its one of those kind of things, lets face it, its politics right now. i mean, this payroll tax holiday was to be for a year. and now its going to be for another year. and andrea, you know how things are around here, after a while its permanent. think about it. basically what that means is that social security becomes a welfare program. i dont know. is that...

Carl cameron reports the man at the top of the polls is trying to accelerate perrys fault. >> in nevada where unemployment and bankruptcy rates are the highest, presidential front runner mitt romney launched a web page called careerpolitician.com attacking texas governor rick perry. a new romney video says texas unemployment doubled on perrys watch to 20-year high and half the new texas jobs in the last four years went to illegal immigrants. perry pumped out positive video of his own, touting hi...