Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100212:14:05:00
Sweeteners for bills down the road. that's another story. another idea here is that the republican leadership, sure, they would have gotten orrin hatch, chuck grassley, maybe a few other republicans, but the leadership was not going to buy in. and with harry reid and a lot of other democrats facing tough re-election battles in the senate itself, perhaps coming close to being threatened by the majority, they were expecting republicans to turn around, perhaps, pull the rug out from them, and hammer them on another $85 billion piece of legislation coming out of congress. the bottom line is, they'...