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December 26, 2009

Analysis: Health Care Debate Shows Obama Plays By DC's Rule

NYT, NYT

WASHINGTON — Howard Dean ran for president in 2004 as the outsider ready to battle an entrenched establishment in Washington. And so, four years later, did Barack Obama.

President Obama spoke on health care Dec. 19 at the White House as Rahm Emanuel looked on.

Howard Dean shown in his presidential run in 2004.

Now, one year into Mr. Obama’s presidency, a sharp dispute between the president and Mr. Dean over the health care bill the Senate approved Thursday — Mr. Dean denounced it as a sellout, while Mr. Obama heralded it as a historic breakthrough — is illustrating the roots of the ideological breach within the Democratic party.

It is not just that the left wing of the party thinks that its centrists hold...

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