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