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journal," ruth marcus, editorial writer for "washington post" and susan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today" . thank you all for coming in on friday. i'm struck by, we interviewed sam, and he called it a pyrrhic victory for president obama, it looks like a victory but ultimately talking about health care, relitigating health care is a loser for them. >> president obama voided calamity by winning in the court. it's a good thing for him. >> sometimes not losing is winning. >> exactly. the court to have gone the other way would have been catastrophic. that doesn't make it a good issue for him. health care is still not popular -- the health care law not popular with the majority of americans and not the issue that will get him re-elected even though it is the signature achievement of his first term. >> do you buy the idea that's percolated around, chuck todd, you may have heard of him -- >> seemed like a nice guy. >> he has pushed the2idea that there is now a window, it's small, but there is a window to relitigate in some way the politics of the health care law, basically for the last two years you have seen more people view the law unfavorably than favorably. can tha

sam stein with us. who's in new york, barnicle? >> barnicle in new york. >> and willie. >> getting grumpy about the nba, fighting willie. >> time for the must-read opinion pages. we'll start with ruth marcushington post" stirring the constitutional pot. in the age of eight figure checks to super pacs it's time for a constitutional amendment that could end this dangerous farce. the notion of fiddling with the first amendment should make anyone nervous, especially anyone who has spent a career benefiting from it. then again, so should sheldon adelson's $10 million to mitt romney's super pac. a system that lets one individual pump so much money into supporting a favored candidate, threatens to substitute oligarchy for democracy. i can't bring myself to support a constitutional amendment. that enterprise would detract from more practical efforts to tighten rules, stricter limits on coordination between candidates and super pacs, for example, even under existing interpretations and at bottom the fault with the current arrangement lies not in the first amendment but in the supreme court's interpretation thereof. the system is toxic, completely toxic at this point and skewed and unfair. >> bob k