Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110921:13:47:00
>> absolutely. and democrats have never marched behind this president. this is the same problem the president had on health care where his instincts were more progressive but he had this firewall of conservative democrats, and joe lieberman saying we're not doing the public option. even when you look at the stimulus, you always had pushback from within the democratic party on more progressive things the president wanted to do. closing gitmo. that was democrats who sided with republicans, trying ksm, in the u.s. that was democrats again who undermined the president sort of progressive instinks ...