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Last week the only advanced country that allows 15 million of its citizens to not have any health insurance and the vast majority of those folks work. its just that they dont happen to work for a company that is either big enough or generous enough to provide that many coverage. so thats point number one. theres a moral imperative that is important. number two, you dont know who might end up being in that situation. see, those ever us who have health care right now, asks ourselves well is this s...

Vile, disgusting. >> sean: does this explain why hes pushing so hard, even against the will of the american people? is this why he doesnt see -- look for all of clintons faults, when america rejected his sharp, you know turn to the left, he moved back to the center. barack obama shows no inclination to do that do you think well ever see that? would he rather just drive his agenda whatever the political cost? >> i absolutely do. i think what he is doing is the culmination of what a lot of 60s rad...

Vile, disgusting. >> sean: does this explain why hes pushing so hard, even against the will of the american people? is this why he doesnt see -- look for all of clintons faults, when america rejected his sharp, you know turn to the left, he moved back to the center. barack obama shows no inclination to do that do you think well ever see that? would he rather just drive his agenda whatever the political cost? >> i absolutely do. i think what he is doing is the culmination of what a lot of 60s rad...

Foreclosure notice in the mail than are buying their first home. that means theres something wrong in america with the housing market. that means the american dream has become the american nightmare. its imperative they figure out what to do. everyone disagrees on how to do it. some people say were just tinkering around the edges, rewarding people for bad behavior. we can agree here this is something that stuck with us. were talking about recovery in the economy. its 2010, maybe 2011, and we sti...

>> no, it is not called math and -- >> it is called math. >> you use the cbos numbers when they benefit you and ignore them when they say they cut the deficit. and, you know, and the reality is, you can -- actually i dont i mean, i actually have made an argument that there is a moral at -- >> the cb. 0 numbers... >> im in the middle of a sentence i sat and listened to you and made an argument there is a moral imperative and if the deficit goes up im okay with that and i havent made the argument ...

Now the president is about to make it the law of the land. one is taking fire for calling it his partys waterloo. speechwriter david fromme, a fellow at the american institute. i want to read what you wrote. you wrote, quote, the political imperative crowded out the policy imperative and the republicans have now lost both. whats more important, to win extra seats or shape the most important piece of social legislation since the 1960s. a lot of people would take issue the republicans have lost ...

Necessary. >> senator hatch, i want to ask you about the vote-a-thon but i first want to play something senator reid said recently. >> were in the last minute of play. the shot clock is turned off. the other side knows what the outcome will be. so theyre trying to foul us and foul us and foul us and foul us again, just to keep the clock from reading zero. theyre not just delaying the inevitable, theyre delaying the imperative. >> are you going on after the shot clock? i mean senator feinstein ca...

The shot clock is turned off. the other side knows what the outcome will be. they are trying to foul us and foul us and foul us again just to keep the klos from reading zero. they north just delaying the inevitable, they are delaying the imperative. >> are you going on after the shot clock is dead? senator feinstein calls it a vote-a-thon. is the republican approach to delay the inevitable? >> not really. i think it is to get amendments passed that are valid amendments. if you have a social secu...

The other side knows what the outcome will be so they are trying to foul us and foul us and foul us again just to keep the clock from reading zero 0. they are not just delaying the inevitable, they are delaying the imperative. every time they foul, well keep hitting our shots. well overcome every obstacle they throw in our way just as we have for the past year. and soon, when the buzzer finally sounds, there will be a clear winner. that winner will be the american people. >> in the house of repr...

Imperative. >> we had historic votes to put social security in place to make sure that our elderly do not live out their golden years in provety. we have a vote to make sure that everybody was equal under the law. when we have faced such decisions in our past, this nation time and time again has chosen to extend its promise to more of its people. >> after yesterdays speech at a college near washington, the president was on the phone to low makers before he got to the white house, trying it chang...