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Conservative Florida Senate candidate Marco Rubio says people in his state, Massachusetts and everywhere else in America are opposed to the Obama big government agenda.  Rubio says Democrats should avoid ‘procedural trickery’ on health care unless they really want to get whipped at the polls.  He also rips what he sees as Obama’s duplicitous and disingenuous campaign against Wall Street banks.  We also ask Mr. Rubio whether the GOP will have trouble keeping the party establishment and the grassroots activists on the same page heading into the midterm elections.

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Republicans celebrate Scott Brown Senate win in Massachusetts while Democrats try to figure out what went wrong, health care reform bill looks increasingly unlikely, McCain calls for health care process to start over, Napolitano says DHS doing everything possible to protect Americans from terrorism, Haiti hit by major aftershock.

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The Republican win in Massachusetts is sending shock waves throughout Washington – especially among Democrats.  How are Democrats processing what happened in the race to replace Ted Kennedy?  How will it impact health care legislation?  How will Democratic members shift gears in hopes of saving their political careers?  Will the voters accept such a change or just see it as a calculated political move?  We ask longtime Democratic strategist and former Lieberman chief of staff Michael Lewan.

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USGS Earthquake Analyst Don Blakeman explains Wednesday’s severe aftershock in Haiti – a 5.9 quake.  Is it rare to see intense aftershocks more than a week after the original earthquake?  How do experts tell the difference between an aftershock and a separate quake?  And why are we seeing so many earthquakes in this hemisphere.

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Tennessee Rep. Marsha Blackburn says the Democrats nationalized the Massachusetts Senate race and it blew up in their faces.  She says Martha Coakley was tasked with supporting the Obama agenda and that’s what the people rejected.  Blackburn says Obama is risking huge losses in November by planning to push his current agenda even harder.  She says House Democratic leaders are feverishly trying to twist enough arms in their caucus to pass the Senate version of the bill.

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Election Day in Massachusetts, Dems plot health care strategy if GOP wins Kennedy seat, Barney Frank wants to kill the Senate filibuster, more troops arrive in Haiti, FBI illegally obtained more than 2,000 phone records in prosecuting War on Terror.

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The Politico reports today that President Obama plans to be even more aggressive with his agenda if Republicans win the Senate race in Massachusetts.  Is that a good plan?  What would Democrats do on health care?  Will they really end the filibuster rule?  And just how big of a GOP win would this be?  We ask former longtime USA TODAY White House reporter Richard Benedetto.

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Professor Robert Pugsley of the Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles says the FBI greatly overstepped its bounds in failing to provide proper justification for obtaining more than 4,000 phone records.  Is this an egregious act or just what had to happen for the sake of national security?  Are liberty and security naturally at odds or can they work together?

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Matt Schlapp was political director for President George W. Bush.  He says Martha Coakley has run a bad campaign in Massachusetts but even bad Democrats can win there easily.  Schlapp says the people are fed up with how Democrats are trying to cram their agenda down the public’s throats.  He also says Democrats are just doing the bidding of all the liberal special interests.

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Some good news amidst the horror in Haiti, Bush and Clinton discuss the challenges of getting relief to the people, Obama stumps for Coakley, Brown leads senate race, Obama observes MLK Day.

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