Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120124:11:11:00
>> just out of curiosity, who was against it? what principled conservatives were there that could be running for president now that opposed the medicare part d benefit? >> paul ryan, joe scarborough, of course. you could have listened to you surely could have listened to me. you could have listened to people like rush limbaugh. paul ryan had stuff out there. >> i'm just saying there aren't that many. >> but, but -- >> who could have stood on this issue and said, i fought this. >> we forget, though, in real-time, this was a huge, huge problem, because nick smith, then a congressman from i hadmy...