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Karen, there are a couple of issues here whether you agree with president's price tag or whether he is doing the right thing, but he may have a bigger fight with democrats than republicans in making this bill into law. >> that is right. it has taken -- one of the problems here are the tensions within the democratic party. specifically, the tensions between the house and the senate. you know, there is an old joke among house democrats that the republicans may be the adversary, but the senate is the enemy. so, to sort of resolve the differences between the house and the senate bill and still get...

Rammed it through the senate bush got whatever he wants. >> there's a great new republic article about how bush sold the tax cuts and what he did was he is on a permanent campaign. he went to swing districts. talked about the need for a tax cut. he floated the idea of reconciliation from the very beginning so it loomed over the senate's head and lo and behold got 62 votes for it. obama has not done that. unfortunately, he has not been part of the process. he's been hands off with congress and now you have people like bruce bailey saying that the congress doesn't fear obama. well, that's not go...

Achieving? what's congress achieving? i talked to senior white house advisers who make the point, look, part of the rut we're in on health care is that until it gets passed, we can't reap the benefits. the problem is the process. the process is ugly. a lot of americans don't like the process. they get a bill passed and focus on what's really in there, then they can start cottoning to what's really in there. >> the people i talk to say the process may be ugly but people forget about it immediately. >> that's the point. >> so you get it done but then there's a sales job that happens afterwards. ...

Communication, and what you see is an absence of legislation. >> also left out in the cold, savannah guthrie. >> yeah, exactly. >> savannah, relations between the white house and the hill aren't going well at all. relations between senators and harry reid not well. all of these guys, whether it's byron dorgan or evan bayh, they quit and then after the press finds out, they tell the majority leader they're going. >> i just don't love you anymore. >> there's a real breakdown, isn't there, in the democratic party? >> reporter: well, there are definitely communications tensions in this relationshi...

A primary? >> well, rachel, it's a two-step process. you need to have your petitions in to the county clerks to be certified tomorrow by noon, and then you need to collect all of those and submit them to the secretary of state's office by noon on friday. so it's a two-step process. it is a very difficult process to get done, because voters' addresses need to match on the voter registration roles and it takes a lot of time to get it done. mr. coates, who got in the race ten days ago, have been paying people for ten days to collect his and he just got done today. >> wow. on the republican side, ...