Obama: "I'm not sure we can close the gap in our disagreements, and if we cant ...."

[Clio the Leo]

"Then I suspect Harry, Nancy, Mitch and John are gonna have a lot of arguments about procedure..."

In other words...... LET THE RECONCILIATION BEGIN!!!!

(and yes, I meant this to be an OP, I'm not lost lol)

[tallahasseedem]

1. My jaw literally dropped...

LOVE IT!

[Bolo Boffin]

2. "And that's what elections are for."

Last chance to make history, Republicans. Join up or meet the people.

[HughMoran]

3. Yeah, the meaning there was quite clear

:nuke:

[vaberella]

4. Last statement too, "In one month, a few weeks, 6 weeks, or we'll have to move forward." nt

[uponit7771]

5. How are dems going to use this to their advantage come November?

[vaberella]

7. Dems are going to try to ram this through and use the success of the stimulus

and pimp out the possible success of this health care plan and win the seats. And they will show the REpubs as the party of No, hypocrisy, and lies.

[Drunken Irishman]

9. If Democrats can get this done by April, no one will remember come November.

You just watch.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Pretty remarkable day

and that was a satisfying conclusion.

[dmr]

8. That was awesome n/t

[Berry Cool]

10. I was soooooo happy to hear that!

It's like he finally gets it. These people aren't gonna play ball. So the Dems will just have to proceed without 'em.

You go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Clio the Leo]

11. This ENTIRE day...

... was a set up to allow them to build some political capital in order to do reconciliation. That was the WHOLE point. It would have been nice if the Dems and GOP could have found something to agree on, but that wasn't really what all of this was about.

He got it LONG before a lot of us did.

[Cha]

12. Precisely.

And Precisely.

[dave29]

14. +8000

now lets see if the congress can make it happen.

[applegrove]

13. Is it true than when you go through reconcilliation the bill can't be a permanent one but has

to have an end date? Like tax cuts for the rich.