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  Onward, He Said, Regardless
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Last EditedImperator  Mar 05, 2010 09:16am
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AuthorCharles Krauthammer
News DateFriday, March 5, 2010 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionSo the yearlong production, set to close after Massachusetts’ devastatingly negative January 19 review, saw the curtain raised one last time. Obamacare lives.

After 34 speeches, three sharp electoral rebukes (Virginia, New Jersey, and Massachusetts), and a seven-hour seminar, the president announced Wednesday his determination to make one last push to pass his health-care reform.

The final act was carefully choreographed. The rollout began a week earlier with a couple of shows of bipartisanship: a February 25 Blair House “summit” with Republicans, followed five days later with a few concessions tossed the Republicans’ way.
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