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senator edward kennedy. senator? >> the one he touted at the time, and remember, it was only five years ago, as a model for the rest of the country. >> i think there are a number of features in the massachusetts plan that could inform washington on ways to improve health care for all americans. >> the one crafted with the help of m.i.t.'s jonathan gruber and one that helped president obama craft what some call obama-care. and what they now coin obomney care. he's now running away from it as fast as he can, say his critics. no longer saying it should be held up. but it's another littl...

>> the one he touted at the time was a model for the national health care plan. >> what governor romney's former presidential rival called obamany care for its similarities to the governor's law. governor romney has been running away from his critics as fast as he can, saying it should no longer be held up as a model. it's another little known piece of his law that's giving him the biggest headache today, one that says any residents of massachusetts is entitled if they need it, to state subsid e subsidized health care, regardless of their immigration status. mitt romney is the one wh...

care reform. that's their jobs plan. >> it's a taxpayer funded trip. the job debate with congress after all is official business. the president's rival from 2008 these as much more about 2012. >> the president made these remarks on a tax payer paid for riding in a canadian bus visit for the next three days. >> plus, rush limbaugh often has unkind things to say about me and this network. so what are we to make of this over the top praise of our fast and furious scandal? >> john king is calling attention to a huge contradiction. how did the president know about this in march and how di...

Flow because of them, which is just not true. bill: walker's point is that he's got to end it now, ice, it's going to creep back into the system a year from now or two years from now or five years from now. bob, simple question: should anyone get a pension if they don't pay for it or don't contribute to it? >> i don't think they should and you'll never see another employee that will. i'm not arguing that some of these contracts were not very, very generous but in the future now you're not going to see administrations, democrat or republican, sign them and they shouldn't. bill: one more thing, ...

Isn't that what they are aiming to do. >> democrats to have run their own campaigns on a local basis and state by state basis, bill white in texas, lee fisher in ohio are both facing political circumstances that are extremely competitive and where president obama is not popular. they are making smart political decisions, similar to what republicans made in 2006 and 2008 with george w. bush. he didn't campaign for any of them and i suspect that brad blakeman would tell them these were making the right decision too. >> julie: what do you think about some of the candidates are turning to former p...