something fantastic for this country. i think they do. and people want this done sooner and turn our attention and get back to work so all of that and getting this behind them. do you think that the republicans say health care and 98 that s the ed show. hardball with chris matthews starts right now. we ll see you tomorrow night. so it s official. harry reid is playing hardball and so are we. good evening. i m chuck todd in for chris matthews who is playing with the vice president in jordan tonight. leading off here, reconcile this. harry reid takes off the gloves and plays his own version of hardball. he notified his counterpart, mitch mcconnell, that he will use a senate rule called reconciliation to get the move passed. this will help protect against the fixes that they want to take on the past health care bill already that needs to get passed in the house. for the republicans, it s nothing short of political war. plus, just when you thought the massa saga could
together was a bad idea. we found out what it was, let s go back and fix it. but the innovation was, the destruction of the profitability of wolverines and transparent markets forced them to go to washington to create this gimmickry so they could still make money, and that money still flows to washington, d.c. so you re talking about turning off the banks money machine, senator. remember the loan crisis? the government came in and said, savings and loan, you re really built to do this very small business. let s make it more risky. they did it. okay, they did it, mistakes are made and i m not talking about that. sure as hell the savings and loan industry didn t go back and tell them, keep on doing what you re doing. i know, it s crazy. keep doing what you re doing, sir. hard ball s up next right now with chuck todd. it s official. harry heed tells mitch mcconnell he s using reconciliation? harry reid s playing hardball, and so are we. good evening. i m chuck todd