Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121220:17:08:00
The republican party is going to suffer if they do this, but individual people who are more closely aligned at this point with the conservative tea party movement than with the republican party as an institution, those people aren't willing to sign on, because, in fact, it might be better for kind of conservative principles if you did this, and that that kind of practical calculus in much the way you saw in a health care debate where you had a lot of -- you knew that probably nancy pelosi knew she was going to lose some of the people who voted for that, but it was a core thing for them, and sh...