Iowa Congressman: Obama Will Stake Presidency on Health Care, Energy Reform

Via Taegan Goddard, Radio Iowa reports that Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-Iowa) said during a town hall meeting Thursday that President Obama told him he would be willing to risk a one-term presidency in order to achieve health care and energy reforms.

“The president (said), ‘I’m not going to kick the can down the road.’ And he said that and I said, ‘Well, that’s something I’m kind of used to from southern Iowa, you know. I know about kicking the can down the road.’ And he said, ‘No, if it makes me a one-term president, I’m going to, we’re going to take it on because the country is in need of us taking this on.’ I respected that very much.”