Axelrod on Health Care

Tells the Associated Press on Tuesday:

"The ideas are all there on the table. Now we are in a new phase, and it's time to pull the strands of these together."

Says there's serious discussion in the White House of Obama "giving a speech that lays out in specific ways what he thinks" about the essential elements of a health care bill.

Also says it's possible that the speech could occur before a planned Sept. 15 Obama address on health care in Pittsburgh.

Says some comments from Sens. Grassley and Enzi over August recess "were not exactly consistent with good-faith negotiations."

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