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Spending through these insurance policies on abortion. she is saying she is not going to vote for that. of course, the house members are being asked to vote for the senate bill. that does not include the stupak amendment language, it includes the corn husker kickback and louisiana purchase, to help particular states. that is not going to help marginal democratic members. they have no members from nebraska and one from louisiana. >> gregg: and stupak amendment on abortion can't be used under reconciliation which invites another question. the senate democrats are promising we'll fix the things y...

The timing of it looks funny. i think if you look at mathson's are record, gibbs is right. he has impressive record. nobody would deny or dispute that the fact that the nomination comes as they are trying to woo his brother, get him to switch sides,. >> chris: they say they were vetting this for months. >> that may, in fact, be true that they were vetting it for months. the question is why the timing now at this crucial moment of the health care debate? it brings up a broader point. the broader point is one of the things that people have objected to most strongly. people object to the substanc...

It smells funny. the timing of it looks funny. i think if you look at mathson's are record, gibbs is right. he has impressive record. nobody would deny or dispute that the fact that the nomination comes as they are trying to woo his brother, get him to switch sides,. >> chris: they say they were vetting this for months. >> that may, in fact, be true that they were vetting it for months. the question is why the timing now at this crucial moment of the health care debate? it brings up a broader point. the broader point is one of the things that people have objected to most strongly. people objec...

Let's listen. governor dean. >> this is essentially the collapse of health care reform in the united states senate. honestly, the best thing to do right now is kill the senate bill. >> you can't vote for a bill like this in good conscience. it costs too much money. it isn't health care reform. it's not even insurance reform. >> here you are. >> senate bill hasn't gotten any better. the house bill will make it better. i think that's a good thing. >> how is the senate bill going to be improved so it's not the collapse of the democratic party. have you changed or has the bill changed? >> the bill...

Yesterday, he was breaking it down into small pieces and saying, you know what? there aren't insurance companies didn't they raise your premiums out in california? let's talk about that. >> if you go back to -- let's just pick the date that the corn husker kickback was agreed, to it was in the papers on december 20th. if you look at the polls that were taken in the week preceding that deal, which was sort of the worst of all of the deals, the most highly publicized of these deals. polls at that point showed that people didn't d. not favor it by 15 points, 17 points. you know, respectable, main...