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But theres no question that republicans are back on their heels, make it harder for them to recruit. only bright spot for them, politico has a story out this morning that pointing out for democrats who run on health care, its going to be a tough message for them in weeks ahead. how do you be supportive of obama care, supportive of the president and yet separate yourself from all the implementation problems and as you talked about what if computer problems turn into treatment problems then its ve...

A big year, picked up seats in the house and senate. so why has this obama cars defunding effort come back? its the implementation problems. sure, there would be bumps in the road. would there be a one-year delay for the employer mandate? few people saw that coming, and other implementation problems and that was a big one and that has given the impetus for the tea part to say, no way. i it was the implementation problems they administration struggled with. >> neil: thank youñ! much. >> thank yo...

Coverage. >> well be damned if were going to lose our health insurance because of unintended consequences and the law. it needs to be changed. it needs to be fixed. and it needs to be fixed now, brothers and sisters. >> reporter: labor is demanding cadillac plans for high end health care coverage not be federally taxed and carveout sc. if the obama administration wont fix it, labor asked congress to act. republicans have been trying to repeal or defund obama care as unworkable since the first da...

Republicans and democrats to listen to the people. but it will take a tsunami. and ill do everything i can to encourage that tsunami. martha: joined by jonah goldberg now. thank you for being here with me this morning. let me start with you. i think he does touch on something when he says this whole healthcare issue has made people on both sides of the aisle uncomfortable. >> i think its true. i agree with him on a lot of the complaints about obama-care. its not gone very well. its still not pop...

Its still inclear if even the cbo knows what it will cost for this country. you have the deficit. the clock ticks. tick, tick, tick. it keeps going up. so the question is about the cost. how do democrats feel about that? everybodys home now in their jurisdictions and theyre hearing from their constituents. do you think theyre hearing, we cant afford it? >> yeah. i mean, they -- democrats are undoubtedly concerned. senate democrats who have got some tough races in 2014, democrats are looking to p...

This notion that the mainstream media, i.e. liberal media isnt doing its job is just not true and they have a whole thing about when its going to be implemented. so the fact is that its not been ignored and if you read enough media, youll see whats going on. >> well, judy, there are a lot of reports that the costs are going to be much higher than the president has promised and the media generally seemed to ignore that. >> i think thats because the president himself has said theres going to be so...

Disapproval rating, but congress is faring even worse, around 81%. >> elizabeth prann in washington. elizabeth, thanks. president obama, meantime, says he will do everything that he can to make sure that his health care law works. is this realistic, or should he hold off on it and avoid that threat of a government shutdown? john fund is a columnist for "national review" magazine. he joins us now with more insight. thanks for joining us. >> thanks. >> you just heard about the polls, the preside...

Of that, too. raise the central challenge for supporters of the law at this point. this implementation in getting healthy 18 to 34 year olds, healthy young people making the case they need to sign up for this. if you cant get them to sign up in the first year, big implementation problems, right? >> look, implementation problems with something like this, i understand that. but in some ways this discussion that happens all over this country is almost a fact free zone. the republicans have an obses...

Inevitably have a lot of implementation problems. thats what house house democrats very worried. if the bill becomes popular, in the short-term, they think its going to be terribly unpopular. >> max baucus is warning the white house about it. a lot of democrats have been warning the white house about this. and it is, i think its going to be a real political problem. >> when i used to teach political science, we used to say 90% of life is execution and implementation. this is the 90% of life. all...

Will there be other implementation problems? probably. we saw that with the medicare prescription drug program with the republicans. republicans are talking about this, this kids issue, this afternoon. >> i remember when i was in washington monitoring this, that was, as you pointed out a big selling point. i wonder whether its going to give any pause with the reconciliation efforts going on now onto the senate or whether theyre going to, at the very least, had to add new language that would have...