Ed Schultz: "For Lou Dobbs to wonder if President Obama is quote, 'undocumented' ... that's fringe psycho talk"

nobody outside the whacked-out extreme right has this birthcert. on tis radar screen

nobody outside the whacked-out extreme right has this birthcert. on tis radar screen

"If we don't do something on health-care reform," Grassley said, "the voters are more apt to blame Republicans than Democrats." Grassley also expressed his disagreement with the Republican Party of Iowa, which called health care reform an "experiment Iowa cannot afford." "I would suggest there have been some Republicans who haven't been looking at the polls," Grassley said in a weekly conference call with Iowa reporters, in which he announced he would continue to seek a bipartisan bill:

He referred to a poll showing voters would assign blame 30 percent to the health industry, 22 to Republicans, 11 percent to Democrats and only 4 percent to Obama.

"So it seems to me that we have a responsibility to the Republican Party not to be seen as destroying or at least not talking about things that people believe are wrong with the present health-care system," Grassley said.

ORSZAG: We have to remember: there are some who are advocating delay simply because they don’t have anything to put on the table. The typical Washington bureaucratic game of — 'if you don’t have a better alternative, just delay in the hope that that kills something' is partly what’s playing out here.

On Levin's show, DeMint said that if health care reform passes, it could be "Waterloo" for the conservative movement. "That's why I'm using stronger language than I would normally use," said DeMint.