marked the first time in the history of the obama presidency in which he gave that directive, in which he said i will send you a bill that you should pass. the three major legislative accomplishments of this president, they are not insignificant accomplishments. all of them bubbled up through the congressional process to the point of madness, actually, right? to the point where people were so sick of watching the process develop and were so ready. this was the first time the president actually did that, and i don t know how the process is going to play out because it is such a break from how he s done it in the past, but, i think, politically it s exactly the kind of thing many people have been urging for a long time. they ve learned the lessons of clintoncare too well, the idea the white house and hillary clinton cooked up this 1,000-page thing and sent it