Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100208:09:52:00
For president, but it's not hard to force politicians to take a different position. that's the thing about the tea party. there's no question that ross perot forced the country to take debt more seriously. as a result, president clinton passed an economic plan that was a combination of tax cuts and spending cuts that really reassured the financial markets and put us on a path from a $290 billion debt under president bush, h.w. bush, to a $127 billion surplus at the end of clinton's term. can that happen again? we'll see. under george w. bush, we saw the debt go from $5.7 trillion to he added $...