are much more responsive to their constituents than they are to the power brokers in washington an were elected on anabsolute program of cutting spending and taxation, compromises on things like the debt ceiling are going to be difficult to achieve and keeping them together, as brad suggests, as a team, it s going to be a tough challenge. bill: brad is making the case they re not free agents, they are part of a team. well, they re part of a team, answering different audiences and different constituencies, and can they hold together i think is the question brad is correctly asking. bill: you know what trent lott said about this on the senate side, it s like herding cats, brad. it is. it definitely is. but look, once these guys get to washington away from their districts they re going to be indoctrinated into a system that s pretty much foreign to a lot of these new legislators and they have to understand the way to progress is by acting as a team. you re not going to get all of what
up and not tolerate this, it can t just be the western world taking on the jihadists, it has to be people who are at the heart of islam. martha: and you know, what about the opportunity that was also presented there to say you know, at home in my country, in the united states, people are worried about this, we ve had a number of, thank god, failed attacks, we ve had packages that were headed for our shores, we ve had an attempt in times square, an attempt on christmas day, we have the rise of al-qaeda in yemen, so you can understand, audience here, how my people in the united states feel about this. i mean, i think that s where some of this controversy, and we heard it all over the opinion shows last night, where some of this controversy is coming from and this frustration. i think, again, it goes back to this concept i was talking to you about earlier, martha, it depends on the audience, and i think this is a speech and a question the whole trip has intense focus from the muslim w
about t. voter fraud, fox news.cole and bill, we re getting e-mails from people in nursing homes or group homes or mental health facilities who relatives say are not competent to vote, they re angry and outraged, so if anyone knows about that happening, we want to know, we re going to be investigating. bill: were they voting for roger stalbeck or tony romeo? tony romeo was allegedly registered by acorn in las vegas. i bet the dodgers have something to say about that! eric shawn, thank you. martha. martha: here s the headline this morning, the u.s. is, quote, on the right path to a better relationship with the muslim world, these words from president obama this morning as he travels through indonesia. meanwhile, positive reaction coming out of the muslim world in india to a promise that mr. obama made an jihad on sunday. here he is. this has gotten a lot of attention, this sound bite. here he is answering a question that was posed to him during a town hall event at a college in indi
one of the top goals of republicans who will soon call the shots in the house and apparently, more and more americans believe it s not just some empty political promise. according to rasmussen reports, 46 percent of likely voters now think health care will be repealed, the highest level since the bill s passage, 44 percent say a repeal is likely not to happen. the majority of voters have favored repeal in every weekly rasmussen survey since democrats passed that law in late march. martha: these are pretty striking numbers. weigh don t we want to hear from you, log on, take this poll, today, here s what the question is: do you want your states to take action on health care. and the first response is yes, i would like to see my state fighting it. the second is no. i do not want to see my state opposing the health care reform. weigh in. we ll see what others are saying. this is going to be an interesting one. bill: that will. in the meantime, talking about printing money,
islamic world, it was effective, because he made it clear that this is not a does he not feel anger toward islam, he still regards it as a great religion, a religion of peace, but he says it has been distorted by the extremists, but to the american audience, martha, i think when he said that there s no way you can justify violence against innocents, it opened up the question well, i guess some people don t think that we are innocent when they fly buildings into planes and they think that anybody who s an american is somehow, therefore, guilty of something, and the question is, is exactly what is it that we have done that would allow them in their minds using islam to justify attacks on americans. martha: you know, i think everyone understands the sort of hesitation and deliberation that he took in answering that question in the environment that he was in, that is to be sure, but then i go back to i mean, the question isn t what is the meaning of the muslim religion in the world, th