president s presence at the high school in brooklyn, the latest winner of up against the clock , you guessed it steve cornacki. with 16 points, a record shattering 1600 points, you have survived and won, returning champion, already won. a record setter, con grats brian on topping our own krystal ball. i can t wait for the tournament of champions. i want you to know, i m coming for you and i m rested and ready and mother of two. pain does not scare me. it s on. it s on. i ll bring it to you. before we start talking presidential politics, let us tell you that tomorrow on up against the clock will be guest joe watkins and suzy kim. back to politics, it s been a
it s suddenly a benefit that is going to be rolling out to hundreds and thousands if not millions of people. and they are going to to like very quickly change the whole argument about obama care. if it works in january, february, march, and beyond, through 2014, it s going to be a much harder sell to run in the mid-terms on repealing or defunding obama care on the idea that this is such a terrible law. then you ll talk about taking a working health insurance system from hundreds of people and that s not going to be that popular. even those who oppose it who have friends and neighbors that benefit and suddenly they say, maybe this wasn t a great idea, but that doesn t mean we support repeal or defunding any longer. brian, some people might call it wanting to change the conversation. others might say, look, the president has to walk and chew gum, so when he wants to turn the conversation to immigration, it s not like don t look at
by the end of november. and some republicans starting to recognize that they are going to probably figure out this website thing. we need to have other avenues by which to attack the affordable care act. they want to return the conversation to certain people in states getting dropped off of their individual market coverage and things like that. in that light it seems like maybe the administration s confident that after this swell of stories about how bad things went at first, things will calm down and the website will get fixed and everybody who is making such a fuss about it in this week after the shutdown, will look a little bit ridiculous in hindsight and the discussion of immigration reform and talk in new york all about saying, we actually have this under control and i can focus on multiple things at once. brian, you had a great quote about this that you loved. you see republicans see this as the big chance to pour sugar into the vat of lemon juice that they have squeezed for th