Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111206:14:10:00
The backs of middle class votes and cuts is not a deal. >> you are saying any idea that extends the holiday and doesn't include the tax cut you can't support? >> i'm not engaged in ultimatums. that's the republican mantra. what i need is to sit down together. they know that the compromise stable there and they should pull up the chair and sit down and let's figure this out. we are getting dangerously close to leaving middle class folks twisting in the wind and adding $1,000 out of their bottom line. that's wrong and insensitive and we need to make sure we pay for it in a balanced way. they sho...