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...think it really enhanced the learning process for us,” O’Donnell said, as she reflected on the wide collaborative network established to bring the project into fruition. “It was so great to have different people from different programs to contribute their skills...
Klein: I talked to a bunch a folks - friends, my kids - what should I ask the President? It was almost unanimous: the thing that people remarked on is just how crazy things are. How difficult it is. Focused on the health care process - what have you learned from that process, what's your takeaway? How is it going to influence the rest of your presidency? Obama: Look, even if we hadn't tackled health care, this year was going to be a tough year. During the transition period last year, it became apparent very quickly that we were going...
Having said that, there is no doubt that the process for doing big, important things in this country has become far more difficult because of the way Congress is working right now. I came in expressing a strong spirit of bipartisanship, and what was clear was that even in the midst of crisis, there were those who made decisions based on a quick political calculus rather than on what the country needed. The classic example being me heading over to meet with the House Republican caucus to discuss the stimulus and finding out that [House minority leader John] Boehner...
...understand the strategy that the Republicans decided to pursue. There is a good political argument for it. I don't think it has served the country well, and it hasn't served the process well. Health care then became caught up in that process. And I think that what's clear is that if you have an opposition party that is determined to say no [and] sees their political survival dependent on gridlock, things can get tied up in knots. So that's the second point...
...ultimately you say the primary objection people have is not so much the substance of the bill; it's the process as much as anything else. No. The primary [concern] for the average voter - and I've met hundreds of thousands of people since I've been [campaigning] - the biggest problem that I have heard is that No. 1, we can't afford it, and No. 2, they don't like how it's been done behind closed doors. They don't like the political maneuvering...