it is now time for today s shuster showdown. president obama is dropping his plans for a trip to asia. house speaker nancy pelosi is putting democrats in her rearview mirror. reid is saying get ready for reconciliation, known as majority rules. now democrats are raising the stakes by tying student loans to the health care bill. in other words, anybody who votes against the bill will face the charges in november of also having opposed helping young americans go to college. as for the republicans, house minority leader john boehner was a guest on msnbc s daily rundown and made it clear bipartisanship is dead. all my attention and all my effort at this point is making sure this bill never, ever, ever becomes law. and i think the american people are on our side. i think they have spoken loudly and clearly. they want no part of this. i think democrats who vote for this do this at their own peril. have democrats finally learned to beat republicans at
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their own game? with us for shuster showdown, radio talk show host bill press and alex conan. bill, let s start with you, democrats playing hardball. will it work? i think it s about time. i talked to several senators, members of congress, people at the white house in the last couple of days. from all of them, you hear a new sense of optimism. they feel they are very close, really down to the very final issues between the house and the senate. the more the republicans defy them to pass this bill, the more the democrats are committed to doing it. the president is staying in town for an extra three days to get it done. they really feel they can get the bill done by the end of the month and take it to the american people, let the american people decide. alex, your view? that s the exact same thing we ve been hearing for a year. last june, july, august, oh, by the end of the month we re going to get this done, yet it hasn t passed. there is some bipartisanship actually, bipartisan op
right now the democrats never mind trying to woo republicans, they are out there trying to woo democrats who are looking at this bill, looking at the poll numbers back in their districts where 94% of the people in some cases say they are watching this vote very carefully and the vast majority oppose it. they are looking at this and say, look, if i vote for this bill, it s going to cost mimi job in congress. is it worth it? a lot are saying no. go ahead. the reason it didn t happen sooner, democrats spent too much time thinking they could get some republicans to come along. what john boehner just said is what john boehner said over a year ago and they should have listened to him. they set out determined to kill any obama bill and now at least obama and the democrats realize that and they are leaving them behind. they don t need them. they don t want them. alex, i want to get your reaction to conservative columnist david brooks. to call this an orthodox liberal plan is an absurdity
and if there were already enough reasons to be angry with bp, and there are a lot of them, now the oil giant is saying to congress if congress cuts down its ability to drill in deep water, bp may not be able to pay what it s promised to pay in damages to those people who got hurt down there. big surprise, not really. finally, let me finish tonight by telling you the pair of people i think president obama needs to put into his administration at the highest level to turn things around and merely make things work. let s start with the democrats playing hardball. larry sabateau, professor for the center of politics at the fabulous university of virginia. and susan page is the washington bureau chief for usa today. it s not fabulous just because of you, larry, but it is one hell of a school. here are larry s numbers. they were out the other day. i want to start with your thoughts and your predictions. currently, 47 house seats go republican. a shift enough enough of a shift to get pow
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