afternoon. cnn congressional correspondent brianna keilar joining us from washington. how are they reading the tea leaves in who won? who lost? i don t know. reporter: it s interesting. liberal democrats obviously feel that they lost and they did. they didn t get what they wanted. this wasn t graceful, was it, drew? this was arguably very messy because this was a tax cut compromise that cruised through the senate. a big bip partisan vote this week. and then it really hit a stumbling block yesterday in the house of representatives where at a certain point democratic leaders literally had to pull this bill from the floor because the liberal wing of their party was very upset. what they wanted essentially were more opportunities to protest the bill. to have votes to change the bill, particularly that estate provision you discussed and seemed obvious they with respect going to be able to secure the changes in the vote they wanted some opportunity, some more opportunities to say, hey, we
bill. the centerpiece for the democratic agenda for the first two years has been the health care bill and not one candidate on the campaign trail is talking about it. the stimulus bill that was supposed to keep us at 8% or below unemployment has been a complete disaster. let s go into the stimulus bill and cancel the big government spending programs in the stimulus bill and look at health care and get it off the public s back and extend all of the tax cuts. we ll talk about tax cuts in a moment. you talk about the health care bill. should republicans be out there talking about a repeal of health care in this campaign season? yes. they should be talking about replacing the health care bill. it s going to lead to a government monopoly in health care and bend the cost curve up and not down and it will make it hard for private sector people to offer health care to the employees. i talked about it could be opt-out state provision. the key to this is that no democrat is talking about hea