i return to speak to all of you about an issue that is central to that future, and that is the issue of health care. obama took the unusual step of going back to congress. i still believe we can act. but the ugliness of the fight followed him in. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! a republican congressman had called the president a liar. i couldn t imagine that happening to another president. there was another problem. obama would need 60 democratic senators for a veto-proof majority. and the 60th seat was up for grabs in massachusetts. it had been assumed ted kennedy s seat would go to a democrat. it was, after all, massachusetts. but suddenly, a republican named scott brown was surging.
fighting for decades as well. may he rest in peace. i return to speak to all of you to an issue that is central to that future. the issue of health care. obama took the unusual step of going back to congress. i still believe we can act. but the ugliness of the fight followed him in. the reforms i am proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. a republican congressman had called the president a liar. i couldn t imagine that happening to another president. there was another problem. obama would need 60 democratic senators for a veto-proof majority. and the 60th seat was up for grabs in massachusetts. it had been assumed ted kennedy s seat would go to a democrat. it was after all, massachusetts. but suddenly, a republican named scott brown was surging.
realized how important he get this done because it was something senator kennedy had been fighting for decade. may he rest in eternal peace. i return to speak to all of you about an issue that is central to that future, and that is the issue of health care. obama took the unusual step of going back to congress. i still believe we can act. but the ugliness of the fight followed him in. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! a republican congressman had called the president a liar. i couldn t imagine that happening to another president. there was another problem. obama would need 60 democratic senators for a veto-proof majority. and the 60th seat was up for grabs in massachusetts. it had been assumed ted kennedy s seat would go to a democrat.
happening to another president. there was another problem. obama would need 60 democratic senators for a veto-proof majority. and the 60th seat was up for grabs in massachusetts. it had been assumed ted kennedy s seat would go to a democrat. it was, after all, massachusetts. but suddenly, a republican named scott brown was surging. i thank the people of massachusetts for electing me. that was the death nail for health care because he was the 60th vote. a year of his presidency was gone. political capital spent, and barack obama was staring at a likely defeat. there are people who think that if obama had been more of a schmoozer that maybe people like you were too partisan that
been fighting for decades. may he rest in eternal peace. i return to speak to all of you about an issue that is central to that future, and that is the issue of health care. obama took the unusual step of going back to congress. i still believe we can act. but the ugliness of the fight followed him in. the reforms i m proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally. you lie! a republican congressman had called the president a liar. i couldn t imagine that happening to another president. there was another problem. obama would need 60 democratic senators for a veto-proof majority. and the 60th seat was up for grabs in massachusetts. it had been assumed ted kennedy s seat would go to a democrat. it was, after all, massachusetts. but suddenly, a republican named scott brown was surging. i thank the people of massachusetts for electing me.