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Senator bob casey has his way, you could soon be on the hook for poorly managed union pension plans. the democrat is gathering support for his create jobs and save benefits act. a bill that would transfer tens of billions of dollars worth of retiree liabilities to the pension benefit guarantee corporation backed by, you guessed it, u.s. taxpayers. the total tab could reach tens of billions of dollars. wall street journal columnist and dewpoint editor dan ettinger join us and mary o'grady and washington columnist kim strassel. carefully for our viewers, they're called multi-employer plans. how ...

say they could get worse next year. economist art laffer says the threat of a double dip recession is real. he joins me now from nashville. good to have you back on the program. >> thank you, pall, it's a pleasu pleasure. >> kelly: . >> paul: you're typically an optimist. >> yes, i am. >> paul: why the doom and gloom now? >> well, president obama has, you know, when he took office, did not repeal bush's tax cuts, but let them expire which means on january 1st, 2011 tax increases estate taxes, person income, off shore investing, alternative minimum tax, cadillac plans. on and on and o...

Radicalize the republican party, but again, i think the obama administration has radicalized the republican party. >> paul: he's going to hold the seat in utah? >> probably, utah is a pretty conservative state whachlt about kentucky, dan, the race where son the ron paul who ran in 2008. an ophthalmologist, running against the candidate as secretary of state. democrats will probably say that we're elated that rand paul, a big favorite of the tea partiers, they think we can beat him. >> what they're talking about, yeah, his opponent grayson is the candidate of the republican establishment and pe...

Wisdom is the tea party has radicalize the republican party, but again, i think the obama administration has radicalized the republican party. >> paul: he's going to hold the seat in utah? >> probably, utah is a pretty conservative state whachlt about kentucky, dan, the race where son the ron paul who ran in 2008. an ophthalmologist, running against the candidate as secretary of state. democrats will probably say that we're elated that rand paul, a big favorite of the tea partiers, they think we can beat him. >> what they're talking about, yeah, his opponent grayson is the candidate of the rep...

Virginia congressman alan monahan lost a bid and primary defeat on tuesday, the loss days after the republican senator bob bennett of utah was knocked off the november ballot in the convention. and how toxic it is, this tuesday when democratic senators arlen specter of pennsylvania and blanch lincoln of arkansas attempt to fend off primary challenges of their own. joining the panel, wall street columnies, dan ettinger, jason riley, opinion journal.com editor, james. and dan, we've got an incumbent thrown out. a democratic incumbent thrown out. is there a common theme underlying this? >> i thin...