Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20110118:04:11:00
Abstract but when it comes to programs people use they don't want to see them cut. way republicans have squared the circle in the past is increase spending to the constituencies that vote for them and decrease them for constituencies that vote for democrats. that's what we'll see them do this time. >> is that strategy of let's you go first mr. president is that the whole point of that to get him to make the first proposal and then howl about it and then claim victory? sa that is the goal? >> it would be preposterously disingenuous to bait the president. let us recall that the number one top li...