>> jonathan capehart, i found senior adviser david axelrod's comment to politico very interesting. he says as a sub line, as election night was, it wasn't particularly meaningful other than it gave us the opportunity to do meaningful things so to me, this was a much more, in some ways, impactful thing than election night. that says an awful lot. that tells me they put everything they had into getting this deal done. >> absolutely. this is a paramount achievement for the president. it was something he had to get done. remember, the evening that scott brown won the senate seat in massachusetts, everyone was talking about how the democrats were going to have to either start over or slim the bill down to get the more popular, manageable pieces through the congress and the president decided after initially signaling that he would approve of the go slow approach, just decided to put all of the chips in the middle and go for it big and he did. and he succeeded. but it's going to come at a cost, probably, in november, for democrats in the house. >> well, it's interesting you say that becau