your fellow countrymen. on this vote the yeas are 219, the nays are 212. the motion to concur in the senate is adopted without the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. all right. a historic night. welcome back to morning joe. top of the hour, welcome back, everyone. here with us now, 60 minutes correspondent is leslie stahl. and in washington, we have the political reporter from the huffington post sam stein and we have pat buchanan. leslie, health care has been the holy grail for progressives. last night a big night for barack obama and nancy pelosi. i m going to pull a harold ford because four points. i have four points. me plus one. and you are going to run for
three. three plus one. three. we learned what i think people have been writing, but i think we have learned it big time. she knows how to will power. she knows how to get things done. and in reading the papers this morning, i was reminded of margaret thatcher telling george bush, don t be wobbly. she was in there with obama saying, tough it out. from the beginning, she was telling him the republicans will never come around. so she is a real force. and people will start writing about her differently, i think. and finally, we have learned, again, about the media. you can never write a president off. you just can t do it. that s all i ve been reading. presidents always have the power to come back. and he will well, first of all, there will be a crisis and something, even if he had lost this, he has the capacity through his office to come back. and there s more, but i won t go on, harold. because you have never gone