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Chance of passing it with a 50 plus one in the senate and maybe even in the house. i will tell you this, andrea. this is going to be a real blood bath. conservatives and republicans and tea party types will rally their troops. they will try every tactic they can to stop it in the senate because they believe, correctly, that there's a bipartisan majority in the nation that is against the bill and even in the house, pelosi couldn't get it through because there's a bipartisan majority against it. this is going to be a war approximate and this will affect the entire obama presidency. any idea of b...

The president's health care summit appears to be just that, talk. the president says he expects democrats to pass this bill by themselves if necessary. john mccain says that's a mistake. >> there are areas we can agree on. to go to the 51 votes instead of this traditional 60 in the united states senate will have cataclysmic effects. >> with us now, bob shrum and political analyst pat buchanan. s shrum, first to you, cataclysmicesque, do you think that will be the effect of going through reconciliation of trying to ram something through? should democrats back off or should they proceed? >> they...

Bill, the house passes the senate bill, the president signs it, the house has all the power in the reconciliation process. what are those people in the senate going to do, refuse to modify the tax on health insurance policy? they're not going to pay that political price. people understand, democrats now understand that bipartisanship is gone. it was probably never there. pat is right about that. number two, they need to move on this. they need to get it done, prove they can govern the country and go on to other issues. by the way, pat, you're wrong about one thing. when "the washington post" p...

Nonsense. >> reporter: republican defections made it necessary for passage. half of democrats, 81, voted yes. led by steny hoyer of maryland. >> the american public expect to us be able to act. fridaylock is not what they voted for. >> madam speaker, i will vote for this resolution. >> reporter: some think the bipartisan coalition may serve as basis for future deal to cut the $14 trillion debt. >> it will come together today to pass short-term budget reductions that are necessary. the hardest test for the coalition is a deficit and debt reduction plan. i think we can do it. >> in addition to t...

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