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Care. >> right. >> there was no katrina warning. >> but over 1, hundred people died at katrina. that wasn't the bush administration's fault. t could be much worse. >> joining me is mike pap antonio, ring of fire host. if those folks had lived through katrina, they might have a little different opinion of the thing. good to have you with us tonight. what's your take on this comparison coming from actually both sides of the aisle, that katrina and obama care have some kind of parallel to be made to the american people. >> well, obama saw a health care disaster and ran to fix it. the republicans ...

Along with the republicans. but it does one thing. all this does is keep junk insurance alive. house republicans voted nearly 50 times to get rid of obama care all across the board. this is not about fair policy. it's about politics. congressman peter defazio of oregon voted to pass the upton bill. great to have you with us. congressman, i've always respected you. i still do. i think we have a agreement here, but i'd like you to explain what your thinking was to vote with the republicans on this bill last week. your thoughts. >>absolutely, ed. i voted 46 times against their appeal votes. this ...

Patience? do you think? would you run with obama care, or shy away from it in your upcoming election? >> i won't shy away from it. i think it's the right thing to do. and i feel that in my heart. because i know that there's an extension to it, medicaid expansion, for example, where governor rick scott, our current governor, came out and said he was for it for about 30 seconds. and didn't lift a finger to get it done. and as a result, ed, in my florida, about 1 million of my fellow floridans are not getting health care as a result of that lack of effort by the governor in the legislature. and w...

Up, it's a war based on lies and recover from that. bush will never recover from that when the history books tell the story about george bush. certainly, a computer glitch will be a very minor part of this story, once people understand what this can do for their lives. the problem with democrats is, they need to support this president and rather than talking out of both sides of their mouths, is whether or not they're for it or against it, they need to understand, this is a critical, pivotal point in american history, and they don't need to be equivocal about whether this is good or bad. did t...

On this white house. this fox news methodology of attacking this white house is not just fox news. you know, if you take a look at the comparisons, you've got comparisons that the katrina comparison is a great one. what about the handling of iraq? where you had -- there were no lives lost because of a computer glitch. the computer can be fixed. there were 5,000 lives lost, american soldiers, in iraq, not because of anything but lies. and misinformation. so one can be can fixed and the other one can't. what about the idea of 9/11, where 3,000 americans were murdered, because the republican admi...