I fought constantly with the Obama administration about things that they did that would have actually damaged this process.
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Whitehouse reflects on his disagreements with the Obama administration regarding health care reforms.
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So bad enough that they are here arguing for excess benefits for themselves compared to regular Americans; worse, they are using dark money corruption to get there. So how is that patriotic?
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