Everybody agrees with him, the president says — an unprecedented coalition! But then come the “blizzard of charges and countercharges … the time for games is over. … Now is the time to deliver on health care.” The dismissal of the validity of the counterargument against him is probably necessary, because he can’t really dial things back to a more bipartisan consensus. The question, and we won’t know the answer for a few days, is this: Will the muscularity of the approach win him new supporters, or will it seem as though he is acting in a more partisan manner, and thereby anger independents?
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