difficulty of the main goal. i think the primary goal first is to give people freedom over their own health care choices and right now it is amazing to think in the center of obamacare is a requirement that every american by health insurance whether they wanted or needed or not. reporter: that is the centerpiece of the best shot republicans have of passing anything, the skinny repeal gets rid of the individual mandate and most of the obamacare taxes but getting to 50 vote seems elusive. democrats remain entirely opposed, elizabeth warren vowing to resist. democrats will be here fighting for as long as it takes to beat back the shameful health care bill. we hear the american people, we hear you, we are on your side
afraid to use it. thank the remarks in an interview with npr days before the g.o.p. takes control of both houses of congress. president obama: there will be some areas where we disagree and i haven t used the veto pen very often since i have been office partly because legislation that i objected to was typically blocked in the senate even after the house took over. republicans took over the house. now i suspect there will be sometimes i have to pull the pan out. republicans would need two-thirds of the vote to overturn any veto which means they have to persuade some democrats to side with them. kennedy, the president would argue hits only vetoed two bills since his tenure come into the white house in 2009 but then you can say the senate hasn t been passing anything to his desk so of course he hasn t had to be do anything. he hasn t had anything to do. i think he suffers from boredom. i think this will be a very active congress, in some ways
serious, smart guy. well, it only worked in it the abstract. now that they re having to put numbers to this budget, it does not work in the real world. even republicans are saying, we cannot do this. brian butler at tpm wrote a great piece underscoring this point that i recommend to people. essentially, the rubber is meeting the road for the republicans. they can t themselves make these cuts. what you hear a lot is this story line about how congress is failing. oh, my god, they re not getting things done. they re not passing these bills. failure is not a bug for the republicans running this house. it is a feature. is what they ve set out to do. there are various reasons for that, some that are punitively ideological. even that gives it too much respect, i think. they ve come to a conclusion that passing anything equates big government. it doesn t. you know, you could pass all kinds of leadership. we ve talked about doing things for detroit that don t just involve federal spending. th
pass immigration reform, but they did do something that looked like that if you squint. they voted on a part of immigration reform that s seen as key to locking up republican votes for it. and the thing passed by a lot. it passed with 67 votes. and it could have been even more than that, had some known supporters not been stuck outside d.c. with flight delays and stuff. just a huge vote today that could have been even huger. and that bodes well for immigration reform passing the senate overall by a really large margin. the beltway thinking here is if the margin by which this thing passes the senate is huge enough then even the republican-controlled house will feel like they have to pass it too. the house, where they don t really like passing anything except abortion bans and the fake repeal of obama care 37 times. the house. the house under john boehner. could they actually pass something real? could they really do it? john boehner apparently thinks he can do it. at least last week whe
votes for it. and the thing passed by a lot. it passed with 67 votes. and it could have been even more than that, had some known supporters not been stuck outside d.c. with flight delays and stuff. just a huge vote today that could have been even huger. and that bodes well for immigration reform passing the senate overall by a really large margin. the beltway thinking here is if the margin by which this thing passes the senate is huge enough then even the republican-controlled house will feel like they have to pass it too. the house, where they don t really like passing anything except abortion bans and the fake repeal of obama care 37 times. the house. the house under john boehner. could they actually pass something real? could they really do it? john boehner apparently thinks he can do it. at least last week when he met with the all-democratic congressional hispanic caucus, he told them that he could do it. he says he has a plan to do it. in a private meeting with the congressional