This speech was very effective. And we can already see it beginning to have its effect. Eric Cantor and John Boehner were saying to reporters for 'Politico' that they will pass some of the elements that the president is proposing.
Frum comments on the effectiveness of Obama's speech and notes that Republican leaders are considering passing parts of the proposal.
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You want to be president and that means you have to be president of this whole country.
What Nancy Pelosi here is doing is -- if you play chess, you know that move at the end of the game, where you try to shrink the space on the board... She is trying to force Republicans to make a choice, repudiate her or embrace her.
This is about to be a fantastic political science experiment in figuring out who actually runs a modern American party and specifically the Republican Party.