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And bill whalen. how do you look at the -- in terms of the bigger picture of what is unfolding over the next few months with health care, how do you look at it? there is obviously concern if you're a democrat that, wow if this fails, there are huge consequences, but i see there is also a flip side here that if this works, this could maybe change our politics in a meaningful way. >> it could sort of reconnect people to the idea of what government does. i want to add one quick thing to your setup, a great sort of walk through of the history of it. we have to remember that when ronald reagan got ...

Not only saying people should have this right, which is the moral position, but also saying something that i think creates an incredible opening for the public which is i changed my mind. people get in different ways. but that is also really different. in the civil rights era which is obviously the sort of historical precedent that people look to. the court was way out front. sometime in unanimous decisions like brown, in school busing, obviously in a lot of areas of extending rights to minorities. they were way ahead of both parties. you go back to the original civil rights raer and both part...

We have so have the main focus on the spending problem. the question is how the white house decides to implement this and whether or not they will play really big games jess the temptation for the white house is going to be there is some latitude in how to put the cuts into effect and do them in a way that doesn't hurt as much. their temptation is to make it as painful as possible. school districts do that always cut the fine arts programs or the school busing to make the parents want to cough up the money. >> chris: the white house put out thousands of kids thrown out of head start. we won't ...

We have so have the main focus on the spending problem. the question is how the white house decides to implement this and whether or not they will play really big games jess the temptation for the white house is going to be there is some latitude in how to put the cuts into effect and do them in a way that doesn't hurt as much. their temptation is to make it as painful as possible. school districts do that always cut the fine arts programs or the school busing to make the parents want to cough up the money. >> chris: the white house put out thousands of kids thrown out of head start. we won't ...

Nowadays, whereas back in the nixon administration that meant school busing and desegregation, and that was pretty much it. now it means government interference in absolutely everything. >> well, i think there was a regulatory aspect to that, too. i would say this. if you want to quote a lobbyist lobbyist tony podesta in d.c. has said that essentially obama is a make-work program for lobbyists because any time there's a proposal to regulate as claire pointed out, there's going to be pushback from the industry, whether it's contributions or whether it's paying the salaries of lobbyists to influ...