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Matter what we drop out of the bill as we go along? listen, i would have liked to have seen the senate move faster and more effectively to get a bill passed. but we ve done the best we can, and it s a very strong bill that will cover 30 million americans will, regulate the insurance industry, and will be a first step towards the next level of reform. so we re accomplishing quite a bit this year this week. it s a historic week. markos of the daily kos and roger hickey, i want to thank you both for coming here and joining this question, because it is a difficult strategic question for which i don t have the answer about how liberals should approach this kind of legislation. i really appreciate your insight on it. thanks. coming up, president obama takes a break from the health care fight to talk march madness. he picked last year s champion. who got the presidential nod this time around? speaking of march madness, ....
Could we have done it better? yes. are there is there a need to put the pressure on members of congress who are vacillating right now to let them know, as markos did that they can always have a challenger in their districts if they don t vote for this legislation? yeah, that s a legitimate tool. but the good news is that labor is joining with all the other important groups in the democratic party to demand that the democratic party left and right, conservative and liberal join together to vote for this bill. and i think that s what s going to happen this week. markos, when do we start the clock on deciding who the liberals are? it seems in this discussion that a lot of it is simply saying, okay, the only thing that matters is where you were in 2009 and 2010 on this single issue. some of the people, for example, some of the senators who are being called conservative democratic senators i worked with back during the clinton administration. and they voted for the biggest ....
Out and more effective ends up being implemented at the end of the day. roger, you had a lot of work with labor groups and were certainly close to their input all year. they certainly drew points in the sand that some of them ended up crossing, and some of them have, markos decided they want to get in the business of challenging democrats over their stance on this bill. are you comfortable with that strategy, what could be described maybe as a purity test over one vote on one bill that should decide who is the liberal and who isn t the liberal, and that s what you should mount your challenge on? lawrence, you re absolutely right. the labor movement played a leadership role in getting the country to this moment where we re going to have health care reform, after years and years, decades of working for health care reform. that s what the labor movement does. they ve joined with allies and they ve put together a nationwide coalition to get the best possible bill that we could get. ....
Even the several days they took to assimilate the results of this week s daily kos search 2000 poll failed to give bill o reilly and karl rove enough time to recognize the deep compliments it contained to their skill and effectiveness namely that they helped turn a portion of the american population into the political equivalent of kids who believe in brownies and elves. let s revisit the poll s highlights quickly. before we get to markos. a little more than 2,000 self-identified republicans polled last month, 31% said they believe president obama is a racist who hates white people. 63% said they believe president obama is a socialist. 36% said they do not believe the president was born in the united states. good news for fox news. the message is getting through. after all where else but from the most trusted in news would self-identified republicans come up with the notion that the ....
The premise they re working off of, that the president was not born in the united states, when you have that kind of opposition, it s really, really hard to find common ground. i say that not in a mocking, look how crazy these republicans are, that this is tragic, that this is the opposition we have to deal with. because it really is difficult to find common ground. as a nation, it would be nice if occasionally we could find some of that common ground and come together. markos, good to have you on, thanks so much. taking a page from dr. seuss. a coal company with the gall to call itself after lorax? plus the wall street lobbyists say to clean up their act. but remember, you can put lipstick on a pig, but it s still a pig. new backlash against the wall street bankers. we ll talk to the folks behind that ad in today s town square. [ female announcer ] when you re on a diet, hungry is there to sabotage you ....