Wednesday, April 29, 2009

There it is

Chip Reid finally asks about Sen. Specter's switch to the Democratic Party and what Obama's legislative agenda will be, given his closeness to a 60 member Democratic "supermajority" in congress. He also asks what he thinks about the current state of the Republican party.
Obama praises Specters legislative legacy and "independent streak."
He says he doesn't want congress to be a rubber stamp for his agenda, gives a bit of a civics lesson and says that congress is a "coequal branch of government," (whoda thunk?)
He reaches out to Republicans again and says he wants to get everyone together on health care and see where they agree.

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