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to politics now and what the success of the health reform push means to democrats going forward even as the president continues his effort to get americans to accept the health care changes that are in store. i m joined live now from washington with eleanor clift, contributing editor for newsweek magazine. eleanor, why did the push for health care reform legislation work this time rather than before? well, i think there are probably a lot of answers to that. one of them is this president s perseverance and his willingness really to turn a lot of the authority over to congress so that the chieftains on capitol hill had a vested interest in passing something. the last time we had a serious push for health care during the clinton years the president and hillary clinton developed a plan in the white house and sent it up to capitol hill. and the then chairman of the senate finance committee held

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we missed that. we talked about the end of the year. we missed that. now the president is saying march 18th. i think march 18th is really unrealistic. congress goes on break for two weeks beginning march 26th. i think that is more of a realistic goal. however, as you know, the senate is going to be the real test. the republicans are looking at what kind of delay tactics they can use, that they can employ to try to slow this down, if not stop it. and so even march 26th is going to be a tough deadline to meet. but the president knows, and democrats know, that the election is getting nearer and nearer and nearer. and if they re going to get this done, they ve got to get it done sooner rather than later so they can focus on jobs and give the public what the public so desperately wants which is the attention, the focus on jobs and the economy. right. many would say this health reform push is a short-term political disaster but potential for long-term gain? well, i would say this i thi

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20090906:15:17:15

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