Not even close. They would have lost the House if they had failed here.

The Republicans have, and I think Paone was right in that piece, they have every right. They'll offer unlimited amendments, and the Democrats have to bat 1,000. They have to beat every single Republican amendment.

I was please -- and I know his families and friends are pleased to hear his doctors say that the pace of his work is not what has caused this.

He's been to Haiti five times, twice after the earthquake, three before. He's been to Kosovo, he's been to Colombia, he's been to Peru.

He does. He works his tail off.

This president still has to raise taxes. He's going to roll back the Bush taxes, he has gigantic tax increases of the (INAUDIBLE) health care.

Scott Brown, I think, won -- and he said so -- mostly because he was an outsider criticizing the establishment.

I think this president can find his populist voice in those reform issues, where he's very comfortable. And he's authentic about it.

I think, his story is America's story in the best sort of sense of American populism, where we lift folks up, instead of just sort of reserving power for the moneyed elite.

Democrats say, Democrats -- and this is where Barack Obama is an authentic populist, in taking on what he sees as a corrupt establishment in Washington.

The Democrats have got to decide whether they're more likely to lose their seat -- because it's the jobs issue that will drive this -- will they lose their job if they don't pass health insurance reform, or are they more likely to lose…

You show your character in defeat sometimes a lot more than you do in victory.