Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120217:14:53:00
Hard core political issues, this is about it. republicans lost the politics on this. and they really lost it in december. but it was always, you know, when republicans are referring to a payroll tax holiday that they don't believe is a tax cut, they don't, as a tax cut, that means barack obama won the rhetorical argument. and this was a get out of dodge in terms of politics type of vote that we're going to see today. the reason you saw john boehner, kevin mccarthy and eric cantor all basically say we're going to get this done because there was an agreement, i think, in the house that even thou...