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If the car's not moving, that's when you check under the hood. is this time to look under the hood of the white house and find out what's wrong or not? >> well, to stick with the automotive analogy, chris, the car is still moving, but we're hearing the muffler dragging on the pavement. and the engine is knocking, and the windshield wipers aren't working. i mean, my first sense of what was going to happen here came right after the massachusetts senate race, where there's all kinds of gnashing of teeth about how scott brown pulled off that upset in massachusetts. and how david plouf was going to...

As one staffer told me almost in those therapist tones, you know? oh, we'll get through this. we'll get over it. it's a speed bump. but if they don't get health care, then there is going to be a -- they're going to stand up and say, okay, what are we doing here. obviously, this whole legislative, you know, big bang theory isn't working anymore. can't be done. so then you actually do have to lift up and do an entirely different strategy for governing going forward. because if health care goes down, that means the whole idea of that big bang theory of getting legislation through congress is dead...

As one staffer told me almost in those therapist tones, you know. oh, we'll get through this. we'll get over it. it's a speed bump. but if they don't get health care, then they're going to stand up and say, okay, what are we doing here. obviously this whole legislative, you know, big bang theory isn't working anymore. can't be done. so then you actually do have to lift up and do an entirely different strategy for governing going forward. because if health care goes down, that means the whole idea of the big bang theory of getting legislation through congress is dead. >> yeah. >> howard, i gues...