Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20121205:11:49:00
For growth. it used to be the party apparatus was the only game in town essentially. if they said jump, you asked how high. now you could be a member of congress that says, hey, i don't care what the speaker says because i'm going to have an outside group help get me elected. and in fact, it might be smart politics to be against the leadership. >> it certainly was for me. to not only challenge my republican leadership but also challenge, obviously, bill clinton which brings us up to the next point, which is that we constantly were challenging newt. a great example of it was mark newman. mark n...