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Pretty badly. i think it turned him off to being in congress and being a part of the democratic majority. jon: you can fly from washington marquette faster than you can drive from one end of his district to another. from our chicago, telling me it was taking eight hours to cross his district by car. so you can see, just the prospect of campaigning again in a district that size couldly leave a guy exhausted. >> yeah. i think that's part of it. but let's not ignore political realities here which is that the tea party folks got $250,000 together, john and have been running those ads that martha i...

Americans. my friends and family know that during the last several election cycles when it seemed like health care reform wasn't possible in washington i considered retiring from congress. i wish to spend more time with my family and begin a new chapter in my career. but in each of the past several election cycles i chose to continue to serve the people of the first district because i felt we still had work to do. in 2004, after i voted against the war in iraq i worked to elect john kerry so we could bring illegal, immoral war to an end. in 2006, when it seemed possible for democrats to regain...

Direction of the highest court? >> well, it certainly will have an impact, but not as much as one would imagine and certainly not as much as the departure of some other more conservative justices from the court would have. justice stevens was nominated back in 1975 by a republican president, gerald ford, he was confirmed in a far left polarized era by a vote of 98-nothing and after a senate confirmation hearing in which justice stevens not once was asked about the subject of abortion. at first, stevens joined in a majority to reestablish the death penalty, a ruling he said he later regretted, ...