Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120810:22:05:00
A plan to block him even by washington standards. it's pretty cynical, wouldn't you say? >> well, you know, at one point in the last few years, i thought maybe if president obama proposes a big tax cut for the rich, the republicans would turn around and raise taxes. maybe that would be the way we could solve the deficit problem. i mean, it was very clear right from the beginning that they were doing this. and i think they had a lot of success with this strategy. because by being so resolutely obstructionist, they define everything president obama did as being far to the left. and obama, i thin...