Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110219:00:20:00
Different constituencies. he has independent voters to whom he's supposed to look ration enamel and reasonable like he can run the government jointly with the president of the united states. he has these tea partiers who want him to blow up the government. they want to burn the village to save the village. he's on record of saying if you don't give me what i want, and he's talking to the u.s. senate even more so than the president, president democrats in the senate, if you don't give me what i want, i won't let the government continue on. and so it's this showdown and it's different than in 19...