Vice President Acknowledges Catastrophe

Vice President Biden: “But when we do [approve it], I'm sure you're going to be nailed in ads, 'Well they voted on that' 30 second ads. I promise you as [a colleague] once said to me, 'I'll come campaign for you or against you, whichever will help you the most in your district.' And so will the president because, again, we're all in this together.”

“If we do everything right, if we do it with absolute certainty, there's still a 30 percent chance we're going to get it wrong. The only thing we can get wrong is not reaching a consensus among ourselves ... and demonstrating to the American people that we're thinking small and politically -you [House Democrats] have not, you've thought big. Not since World War II has a caucus gathered with so many challenges facing our country and the stakes so high. The slope is pretty steep. The opportunities are great.”