Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20100804:17:32:00
To the floor of the senate. >> if someone needs to spit out chewing tobacco, brass spittoons, a symbol of an era long gone. the senate continues to labor under the constraints of those earlier -- rays. in those days they were more capable of dealing with each other. it was a club. it was corrupt and cozy. because it was closed off from the world, because the cameras weren't there, lobbyists and fundraisers weren't pervasive, senators were able to create legislation. today our politics are intentionally polarized politics have broken down rules. all those have been warped by partisanship into p...