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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111222:00:01:00

Good evening. i m michael smerconish filling in for chris matthews who is taking some time off after his tour for his book, jack kennedy: elusive hero. chris will be back tomorrow night. leading off tonight, tangled up in blue. when the very conservative wall street journal editorial page tells republicans it s time to raise the white flag, it s time to raise the white flag. house republicans are not only losing on the substance of the payroll tax debate, they are losing the politics, too. they are getting clobbered by democrats, the press, even fellow republicans. this could be the democrats big moment if they don t blow it. plus, ad nauseum. there s something comically ironic about newt gingrich who practically invented the modern politics of personal destruction complaining about all the ads a pro-romney pac is airing in iowa. gingrich is being badly outspent and it shows. in his poll numbers and in his frustration. we ll look at the ads that are ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111222:09:02:00

Over the last few days. gop senate leader mitch mcconnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th congress was to make sure that president obama would not be re-elected. given how he and house speaker john boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up re-electing the president before the 2012 campaign even begins in earnest. ow. this rapidly right wing wall street journal editorial page goes on to not only goes after them on the payroll tax issue specifically, but then it goes on to talk about, the accumulated frustration of over a year of political disappointment. after a year of the tea party house the journal says, president obama and senate democrats have had to make no major policy concessions beyond extending the bush tax rates for two years. mr. obama is in a stronger re-election position today than he was a year ago and the chances of mr. mcconnell becoming majority leader in 2013 are declining. ow, ow, ow. ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111221:22:00:00

I think the whole thing just shows how pathetic the gingrich campaign is on this on this topic. or in general. or in general. thank you, ari. that will do it for us. i m dylan ratigan, and hardball is up right now. note to republicans. stop digging. let s play some hardball. good evening. i m michael smerconish filling in for chris matthews who is taking some time off after his tour for his book, jack kennedy: elusive hero. chris will be back tomorrow night. leading off tonight, tangled up in blue. when the very conservative wall street journal editorial page tells republicans it s time to raise the white flack, it s time to raise the white flag. house republicans are not only losing on the substance of the payroll tax debate, they are losing the politics, too. they are getting clobbered by ....

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20111221:11:49:00

i love the guy, but i love him too. he s a pretty good replacement. this is wall street journal ? yeah. buckle up, republicans. when the wall street journal s saying this about you, water is coming on to the ship. gop senate leader mitch mcconnell famously said a year ago that his main task in the 112th congress was to make sure that president obama would not be reelected. given how he and house speaker john boehner have handled the payroll tax debate, we wonder if they might end up reelecting the president before the 2012 campaign begins in earnest. at this stage, the republicans would do best to cut their losses and find a way to extend the payroll holiday quickly and then go home and return in january with the united house senate strategy that forces democrats to make specific policy choices that highlight the differences between the parties on spending, taxes and regulation. the alternative is more chaotic ....

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next year. but here s the thing, folks, both parties want this. they agree that there should be an extension of this tax holiday. the problem here is that house republicans refuse to settle for the two-month band aid, the two-month extension that has already been passed by the senate. listen. our house gop negotiators are here and ready to work with their counterparts in the senate. he s not lucy, i m not charlie brown. we re not falling for that football stunt, again. okay, lucy and charlie brown. that s what we ve come to now, kate. it can be silly season up there sometimes. but just getting more and more silly, it seems. so, is this just all for show and eventually what people want to know, whether or not this is going to get done, is it? well, it s a good question. right now there s no clear answer, to be quite honest, as it seems both sides at the moment are more dug in than ever before. as you said, the house rejected the senate compromise that two-month ext ....

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