David Axelrod, on healthcare:

“David’s in there — Axelrod — saying we’ve got to try to get ‘something.’ So, the new benchmark is, ‘Well, if we can do something, if we can do anything, then we can say we did healthcare reform,’” [West Virginia Senator David] Rockefeller said.

I know that a lot of Obama fans will be saying that this is just Axelrod, but that sounds a lot like the phrase, “If only the Czar knew.”

Obama will own healthcare, and he owns what his advisors say.