Obama tries to recast health plan as a moderate move
SMU Political Science Professor Dennis Simon talks to The Washington Examiner about the White House push for health care legislation.
President Obama is touting the latest version of health care reform as a measure that should draw bipartisan support — and in a way, it does. Both sides hate it.
In the windup to final consideration of reform, the White House is honing its message, characterizing the plan as a modest effort that strikes a political balance whose passage is a foregone conclusion.
"I think whoever sits here this time next week, you all will be talking about health care reform not as a presidential proposal but as something that will soon be the law of the land," White House press secretary Robert Gibbs told "Fox News Sunday." . . .
Dennis Simon, a Southern Methodist University political scientist, said the White House is pushing hard because Obama "seriously needs to win this."
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