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Winners Win- Controversial domestic wins dont only mean more capital in the U.S, but also international victories Mason 10 (Jeff, covers the White House for Reuters, covering Barack Obama 26 March, Obama's health win could boost
foreign policy, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26180856.htm) WASHINGTON, March 26 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's domestic

success on healthcare reform may pay dividends abroad as the strengthened U.S. leader taps his momentum to take on international issues with allies and adversaries. More than a dozen foreign leaders have congratulated Obama on the new healthcare law in letters and phone calls, a sign of how much attention the fight for his top domestic policy priority received in capitals around the world. Analysts and administration officials were
cautious about the bump Obama could get from such a win: Iran is not going to rethink its nuclear program and North Korea is not going to return to the negotiating table simply because more Americans will get health insurance in the coming years, they said. But the perception of increased clout, after a rocky first year that produced few major domestic or foreign policy victories, could

generate momentum for Obama's agenda at home and in his talks on a host of issues abroad. "It helps him domestically and I also think it helps him internationally that he was able to win and get through a major piece of legislation," said Stephen Hadley, former national security adviser to Republican President George W. Bush. "It shows political strength, and that counts when dealing with foreign leaders." Obama's deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes said the Democratic president's persistence in the long healthcare battle added credibility to his rhetoric on climate change, nuclear nonproliferation and other foreign policy goals. "It sends a very important message about President Obama as a leader," Rhodes told Reuters during an interview in his West Wing office. "The criticism has been: (He) sets big goals but doesn't close the deal. So, there's no more affirmative answer to that criticism than closing the biggest deal you have going." TURN Winners Win- By spending political Capital Obama gets more. Singer 2009 (an editor of MyDD, a position he has held since November 2005. Singer is a Juris Doctorate candidate at
Berkeley Law, 3/3/09 (Johnathan, My direct Democracy, By expending capital, Obama Grows His Capital, http://www.mydd.com/story/2009/3/3/191825/0428) Peter Hart gets at a key point. Some believe that political capital is finite, that it can be used up. To an extent that's true. But it's important to note, too, that political capital can be regenerated -- and, specifically,

that when a President expends a great deal of capital on a measure that was difficult to enact and then succeeds, he can build up more capital. Indeed, that appears to be what is happening with Barack Obama, who went to the mat to pass the stimulus package out of the gate, got it passed despite near-unanimous opposition of the Republicans on Capitol Hill, and is being rewarded by the American public as a result. Take a look at the numbers. President Obama now has a 68 percent favorable
rating in the NBC-WSJ poll, his highest ever showing in the survey. Nearly half of those surveyed (47 percent) view him very positively. Obama's Democratic Party earns a respectable 49 percent favorable rating. The Republican Party, however, is in the toilet, with its worst ever showing in the history of the NBC-WSJ poll, 26 percent favorable. On the question of blame for the partisanship in Washington, 56 percent place the onus on the Bush administration and another 41 percent place it on Congressional Republicans. Yet just 24 percent blame Congressional Democrats, and a mere 11 percent blame the Obama administration. So at this point, with President Obama

seemingly benefiting from his ambitious actions and the Republicans sinking further and further as a result of their knee-jerked opposition to that agenda, there appears to be no reason not to push forward on anything from universal healthcare to energy reform to ending the war in Iraq.

TURN Winners Win- Healthcare proves Kranish and Milligan 2010 (Michael and Susan, Staff writers, March 23, 2010, Bolder Obama may press other big
parts of agenda http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2010/03/23/health_care_win_gives_obama_advantage_but_gop_vow s_to_resist/?page=2) It should make it easier because health care sucked up a lot of the oxygen in the political room

as well as consumed a lot of time, said Daniel Weiss, an expert on climate change at the liberal Center for American
Progress Action Fund. Weiss cited the example of a Democrat who was unable to attend a key meeting on global warming with Obama two weeks ago because he was meeting elsewhere about health care. Weiss believes that health care passage will

strengthen the presidents hand on climate change, particularly if his poll numbers go up in the coming days. In politics, success breeds success. So instead of depleting political capital, it can replenish it. That is what advocates of immigration reform are hoping. Yesterday, the Rev. Jim Wallis, an evangelical Christian who supports the reform effort, met with officials at the White House, urging them to take advantage of the momentum from health care passage. In the meantime, Wallis said, he wants to help
Obama by forming prayer groups for immigration reform in the same way that tea party activists have led protests against various Democratic policies. The country needs to know we are together, Wallis said.

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Winners dont win - statistics Bond & Fleisher, professor in Political Science - Texas A&M and Professor in Political Science. Fordham 1996 (Jon R. and Richard. "The President in Legislation" p.223)//ZE
Presidency-centered variables, however, provide an even weaker explanation of presidential success. We found little support for the thesis that the weakness of legislative parties increases the importance of presidential skill or popularity for determining presidential success on roll call votes. Our analysis reveals that presidents reputed to be highly skilled do not win consistently more often than should be expected given the conditions they faced. Similarly, presidents reputed to be unskilled do not win significantly less often than expected. The analysis of presidential popularity reveals that the president's standing in the polls has only a marginal impact on the probability of success or failure.

Winners dont win for long Mark Seidenfeld, Associate Professor, Florida State University College of Law, Iowa University Law Review, October, 1994
In addition, the propensity of congressional committees to engage in special-interest-oriented oversight might seriously undercut presidential efforts to implement regulatory reform through legislation. On any proposed regulatory measure, the President could face opposition from powerful committee members whose ability to modify and kill legislation is well-documented. This is not meant to deny that the President has significant power that he can use to bring aspects of his legislative agenda to fruition. The President's ability to focus media attention on an issue, his power to bestow benefits on the constituents of members of Congress who support his agenda, and his potential to deliver votes in congressional elections increase the likelihood of legislative success for particular programs. Repeated use of such tactics, however, will impose economic costs on society and concomitantly consume the President's political capital. At some point the price to the President for pushing legislation through Congress exceeds the benefit he derives from doing so. Thus, a President would be unwise to rely too heavily on legislative changes to implement his policy vision.