KOFINIS: Well, you know, this is I think the real battle that we're going to be seeing play out in the next four-plus weeks, especially over this hiatus during the summer. There's a silver lining to the tea baggers, birthers, angry-fake angry mobbers. I think it's really impassioned the people out there, the overall majority of Americans that want health care reform.
I think what you're going to see, in terms of both the formal strategy that is coming out of the White House and the Congress, is an aggressive response. But I also think you're seeing a lot of Americans are starting to speak out and say, wait a second, this is not reflective of what we believe. We actually want health care reform. We want to actually deal with the crisis that has been ignored for decades.
OLBERMANN: But did Cornyn, just in passing him briefly, give away something he shouldn't have said? Talking about the town hall uprisings, and saying they were a good thing. He said fear, I would say, precedes anger. And I think there are a lot of people who tell me they are scared of what they see coming out of Washington. Should we be anticipating that for the next two years, four years? That you have nothing to fear but all fears we can make you think of?
KOFINIS: Yes. The reality is fear is the Republican party's favorite four-letter word. That's all they have. They have no ideas. They have no alternatives. Look at the health care debate. They've offered nothing substantive. This all about scaring people. It's unfortunate. But this is where we have to respond aggressively. And I think that's where you'll see from the White House, from the Democrats.
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