the tax cut deal did clear the 60-vote mark. role call continued. it looks like the obama tax cut deal will clear the senate. we ll see what happens in the house. federal judge in virginia today declaring that part of obama s health care law is unconstitutional, specifically the individual mandate to purchase health insurance. judge hudson saying the government does not have the authority to force all americans to get health insurance. the judge s ruling in favor of the lawsuit filed by virginia s republican attorney general. take a listen. this case is not about health insurance. it is not about health care. it s about liberty. the decision with no immediate impacts since that part of the health care law doesn t go into effect until 2014, all parties involved say that the issue will be decided by the supreme court and of course the ruling says nothing about the substance of the law,
the system cut 500 million dollars out of the burt>:m÷ and make it less expensive to the people buying into it. that is unrealistic. greta: he said reading you said reading, i don t mean to are snarky on a friday night. the fact that i don t think anybody knew what was in it to decide whether orzçmñz not it ws wise. i don t think anyone this country doesn t think our health care can use improvement. nobody knew what he or she was voting on. people are raising prices and most of it doesn t go into effect until 2014, why are costs going up right now if we are not getting anything right now? the costs will group any way. the cost of health care is something that rises. if you start mandating new features in a policy everybody has to have mental health
the system cut 500 million dollars out of the burt>:m÷ and make it less expensive to the people buying into it. that is unrealistic. greta: he said reading you said reading, i don t mean to are snarky on a friday night. the fact that i don t think anybody knew what was in it to decide whether orzçmñz not it ws wise. i don t think anyone this country doesn t think our health care can use improvement. nobody knew what he or she was voting on. people are raising prices and most of it doesn t go into effect until 2014, why are costs going up right now if we are not getting anything right now? the costs will group any way. the cost of health care is something that rises. if you start mandating new features in a policy everybody has to have mental health parity, obgyn services, when
they call wanted. they are suffering the consequences for it. but they shouldn t try to shade it that way. i don t think that helps his credibility problem. greta: they are not out bragging, they are defending. which is not a powerful position to be when you are on the verge of going into election. you want to be bragging about the great things you did not defend or explain. they thought last february by now everybody would at last be calmed down and not as mad about it or start to realize some of the benefits of it. intensity against this bill is just as high. karl rove will have something in the wall street journal tomorrow talking that. greta: the way it is structured doesn t go into effect a few things have gone into effect but it is hard to have anything to sell to the american people, because we haven t yet seen the things that are supposed to be one of the things popular for some, if you are a family and you have children in college that you can keep your
right now he has loss significant support with not only hispanics but african-americans as well. there s across the board slippage which for any president is a real warning sign. greta: how does he pull this off? what can he do? i know that they think the health care is going to really razzle-dazzle the american people and they are going to love it. the problem is it doesn t go into effect until 2014 which is too late to be razzle-dazzleed. what can the president do to make things more attractive to voters? you were discussing with dana to make this a so-called choice election and blame george w. bush for the problems that he inherited and say he started the job of reconstructing. the problem is, it has been almost two years, the democrats, as you suggested, control the congress. there s no progress on the economy and no jobs and people are frankly hurting.