but i have a question for you, judge. how important is the personality that is chosen? look, you ve got a chief justice, john roberts, and we know he is like a cool, stoic like character. we know some of the personality descriptions of these people. how important is that? jeanine: that is a great question, and it s extremely important, because if you look at all of these three potential nominees, what you ve gone are very similar backgrounds, very similar prior experiences. but it s the guy who, i have to say, the guy, who d at this point isn t as contentious. harris: until you are on the list. jeanine: right. who isn t as contentious, who isn t as electric, it s the guy who is friendly, that will move among the senators and make friends. he could have the absolute same opinion, ultimately, but he s kind of otto wheeler-dealer, but a schmoozer. even though he s replacing antonin scalia? that is interesting.
i thank the people of massachusetts for electing me. that was the death knell for health care because he was the 60th vote. a year of his presidency was gone. political capital spent, and barack obama was staring at a likely defeat. there are people who think that if obama had been more of a schmoozer that maybe people like you were too partisan that somehow he needed to reach out. just one golf game away from singing kumbayah. give me a break. desperate, obama changed gears. first, he apologized to the country. i take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the american people. then he barnstormed for the bill. across america and in congress. i may not be the first president to take up the cause of health care reform. i am determined to be the last. yes, we will. freedom yes, we will. freedom. and he made more concessions, giving up the public option,
i thank the people of massachusetts for electing me. that was the death nell for health care, because he was the 60th vote. a year of his presidency was gone, and barack obama was looking at a possible defeat. there are people who felt that if obama had been more of a schmoozer, that somebody like you, with two parties we re just a game away from singing. desperate, obama changed gears. i take my share of the blame for not explaining it clearly to the american people. then, he barn-stormed for the bill in america and congress. i may not be the first person to take up health care, i m determined to be the last. and he made more concessions, giving up the public option which would have created a
it was, after all, massachusetts. but suddenly, a republican named scott brown was surging. i thank the people of massachusetts for electing me. that was the death nail for health care because he was the 60th vote. a year of his presidency was gone. political capital spent, and barack obama was staring at a likely defeat. there are people who think that if obama had been more of a schmoozer that maybe people like you were too partisan that somehow he needed to reach out. just one golf game away from singing kumbayah. give me a break. desperate, obama changed gears. first, he apologized to the country. i take my share of the blame for not explaining it more clearly to the american people. then he barnstormed for the bill. across america and in congress. i may not be the first president to take up the cause of health care reform. i am determined to be the last. yes, we will. freedom.
a little, nobody had to give everything. then it became a crisis that became the opportunity to do the things that you never thought were possible. there are people who think that if obama had been more of a schmoozer that maybe people like you were too partisan. that somehow he needed to reach out. you don t think that? we re just one golf game away from singing kumbaya. they had a political strategy. the reason i say that, mitch mcconnell on the day he gets inaugurated says what his strategy is. he enunciated it. it s in the paper. he said, we re going to do everything we can to stop them. everybody else thinks how do you be a better golfer with everybody else. how would they get along. they told you the strategy. now, could the president on the margins done the things that people talked about? yes.