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Very, very liberal president? frankly, tip o neil is a good person to study to see how he did it in the 80s. sean: i think i agree. how would you deal with the communication problem you mentioned? it has been atrocious. first, i would see how many of the house and senate republicans are prepared to sign up for serious communications. i d build a methodical plan. when we took on reforming medicare in 1996, a huge challenge, with a democrat in the white house, we trained every member of the house caucus to be able to go out and talk about medicare, in an intelligent, effective way. we knew what we were trying to say. the congressional campaign in last year on the mediscare project they beat the democrats in every district where that became an issue. i would start with the national republican congressional campaign approach. then i would grow it ....
Very, very liberal president? frankly, tip o neil is a good person to study to see how he did it in the 80s. sean: i think i agree. how would you deal with the communication problem you mentioned? it has been atrocious. first, i would see how many of the house and senate republicans are prepared to sign up for serious communications. i d build a methodical plan. when we took on reforming medicare in 1996, a huge challenge, with a democrat in the white house, we trained every member of the house caucus to be able to go out and talk about medicare, in an intelligent, effective way. we knew what we were trying to say. the congressional campaign in last year on the mediscare project they beat the democrats in every district where that became an issue. i would start with the national republican congressional campaign approach. then i would grow it ....
Very, very liberal president? frankly, tip o neil is a good person to study to see how he did it in the 80s. sean: i think i agree. how would you deal with the communication problem you mentioned? it has been atrocious. first, i would see how many of the house and senate republicans are prepared to sign up for serious communications. i d build a methodical plan. when we took on reforming medicare in 1996, a huge challenge, with a democrat in the white house, we trained every member of the house caucus to be able to go out and talk about medicare, in an intelligent, effective way. we knew what we were trying to say. the congressional campaign in last year on the mediscare project they beat the democrats in every district where that became an issue. i would start with the national republican congressional campaign approach. then i would grow it ....
45 past the hour. here with us now, former white house adviser for health policy, dr. ezekiel emanuel. why don t i touch off the conversation by reading dan senor s piece, the death of mediscare, fighting democrats to a draw on medicare including the fact that republicans retain comfortable control of the house may well be seen one day as a key moment in american politics when mediscare attacks finally lost their potency. the campaign showed republicans that it pays to deal with attacks head on rather than run from them, that treating the american people in a mature fashion pays dividends and that calm, persistent and well-reasoned arguments can overcome demagoguery. so let me give you the background really quickly. i see you laughing here. what? dan cited in the piece all ....