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Economy. you have women who had been frustrated with the president quite frankly during the health care reform bill, remember the stupak amendment and the deal about abortion. you have women having the president stand with him and a lift to rick santorum and extending the presidential prima primary. >> i would tweak that a little bit. you have the opportunity to talk about religious freedom, which is something that mobilizes. weve been talking in this political season that theyre concerned conse...

About women using birth control for a lot of reasons, its the most common prescription medicine that women use. and i think a lot of women, because of the statement today, probably for the first time learned that birth control will be covered because of this administration for no copay. its huge news for women. >> lets open it up to the panel a bit and get everyones thoughts on sort of how this will shake down on the white house. >> i feel like that announcement took a long time to getting to it...

Position, we had one year built into this, we are not reversing course, they are trying to spin this this thing, but does it not look like they were caught flat footed? >> the last question, is the key, the polling sort of shows the white house is on the side of popular opinion, even among catholics about you know 50 to 55% of catholics support this process. back to what luke said, the dna of this fight was the stupak amendment, because the womens groups were upset about the fact that that had t...

They dont know that the white house has a commitment to standing up for womens rights on an issue like this? >> well, look, i was the co-chair of the pro choice caucus when we passed the affordable health care act, and we saw what the bishops are willing to do with the stupak amendment that would restrict a womans right to choose and other things. and we think its much better to get this out in the open right now to raise the issues, to let the white house know as they promulgate this final regu...

You think there is concern among womens health advocates on something like this because they are concerned more broadly that they dont know that the white house has a commitment to standing up for womens rights on an issue like this? >> well, look, i was the co-chair of the pro choice caucus when we passed the affordable health care act, and we saw what the bishops are willing to do with the stupak amendment that would restrict a womans right to choose and other things. and we think its much bet...

Where was it before the hours right before the, quote, dramatic government shutdown, where was this issue? it was not being -- >> well, it was planned parenthood. >> i dont remember it ratcheting up and becoming number one. >> it always comes in the in the last few days. the last few days on health reform were not spent talking about delivery system reform or medicare reform or any of those aspects, but spent on how do you make sure that federal funds do not go through these to pay for abortion ...

Putting the word "fact" in your name does not automatically grant you mastery of the facts. when karl rove in "the wall street journal" that barack obama had the worst ratings of any president at the end of his first year, politifact rated that mostly true. own though his approval rating was 49%. and ronald reagan posted a 48% approval rating at the end of his first year. did not matter to politifact. they rated the statement as mostly true. apparently the word "true" means a lot less. they also...