Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100303:18:26:00
Why has a republican candidate been so successful at blocking the president's health care proposals. gentile but iron fisted mcconnell. jen thrush joins us now. glen, great hat. how has mitch mcconnell managed to rule supreme? >> well, the man knows the senate. and as a bunch of folks told me close to mcconnell, barack obama doesn't know the senate that well. he was there for two-plus years. he hadn't really mastered the by-ways and mcconnell knows how the use every trick in the book to keep the democrats on the defensive. >> so where's harry reid in this scenario? >> that's a very good questi...