Healthcare summit: Biden’s Eleven

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Almost three hours into the summit, Vice President Joe Biden could not hold his tongue any longer.

He just blasted House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.), who has been using the 2,000-plus-page bill as a baseball bat to bludgeon President Obama and the Democrats.

Biden argued that there was no fundamental disagreement between Democrats and Republicans about insurance reform; the only question was the role of government in regulating the marketplace.

And if Cantor was playing Al Capone in the bat-waving scene from “The Untouchables,” the vice president found his inner Danny Ocean, hectoring Cantor and the GOP, saying “You’re either in or you’re out!”

-- James Oliphant