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>> i understand you asked the speaker about his remarks when he said the country will not fall in love with mitt romney. let's take a look at his answer cht. >> the point i was trying to make is simply this. the election this november is going to be a referendum on the president's failed economic policies. i'm going to be enthusiastic about voting for governor romney in november. >> luke, can you recall a speaker of the house ever offering a weaker endorsement? >> well, look at it, john boehner has pretty much kept his mouth shut the entire time, but if you talk to aides behind the scenes from...

In the past, very bad things about the recovery act, about stimulus spending. saying give me the money. by the way, i built this road and this and that. so, i think a lot of the positioning now is going to look even more shallow than a couple of years than it does right now and these are people very comfortable campaigning against something, but secretly taking the the money and trying the take credit for it. >> the problem with this is unlike the stimulus where you could sort of publicly say no, i don't want this one particular part of it, but i'll take all that other stuff. this is very cut ...

Probably. a gop aide said you've got to go to the dance with the one that brought you and they're going to dance all the way with mitt romney and we'll see how far that goes cht it. it's not like the enthusiasm for george w. bush. stay with us. the day's top lines are coming up.

Bit? >> i think so, but i'm not particularly hopeful because i think the republicans are going to make this a litmus issue. they spent so much time demagoguing quote unquote that i think this will become a new issue and anyone who wants to survive a republican primary is in a position to -- and to be able to do it, is going to pay the price in a republican primary. >> on the basis he doesn't want to support planned parenthood. the predicament of women in need of basic health care is going to worsen and worsen in that state. >> that's about right because women rely disportion atly on medicaid. ...

Problem ft it's been studied in kansas, ohio, it doesn't exist. even under the bush justice department, there were only a handful of cases prosecuted in the entire eight years. this is aimed to disenfranchise somewhere between 10 to 20% of registered voters. >> there were no cases prosecuted by that bush effort that would be fixeded by voter i.d. cases of impersonation, which is the only form of fraud you fix by voter i.d. this is a solution in search of a problem. >> and david, it is about disenfranchising democratic voters, isn't it? >> well, of course. there's a long tradition in american p...