JIM LEHRER, HOST: Senator, as you know -- much has been made of this -- that, through history, recent history in particular, Republicans have opposed things like Social Security, Medicare, even civil rights legislation, but then, once they lost, they took some deep breaths and moved on, and then finally ended up embracing many of these major changes in -- in laws and in the way we do business here.
Is that going to happen with health care reform?
SEN. JON KYL, (R-ARIZONA): Jim, could I argue a little with the premise of your question?
LEHRER: All right. OK. Sure.
KYL: The civil rights legislation was pushed by Republicans, as you will recall. It was the Southern Democrats who filibustered it, who fought against it.
All of those social change things that happened in the 20th century had fairly large bipartisan votes backing them. Only ObamaCare has been a strait party line ram-job. So the Dems own it 100% and they will certainly feel it come November.
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