joe conason joins us now, along with thewashingtonpost.com chris cillizza for the "politics fix."o listen to what president clinton -- he was on with larry king, you know, first-time caller from pomona, earlier this week. let's listen. >> and they somehow believe that miraculously we should be the only rich country in the world that can't figure out how to cover everybody and keep shoveling literally $900 billion a year at health care. you think about how much our deficit is today. think about how much we're at a competitive disadvantage with other countries in manufacturing. we're throwing $900 billion away in health care that has nothing to do with good health and doesn't even cover everybody. so the people that are getting the big chunk of that money don't want to give it up and they're ready to stoke all of these fires. that's the fight barack obama wants. he wants to fight this on the merits, and i respect that and he's right about it. >> joe conason, right there you had the former president of the united states in about 35 seconds sort of giving an outline of the health care