At what point do you start to get the idea that the Republicans are just not going to play along?

I think, frankly, less the town hall meetings. That hasn't moved a lot of Democrats.

I think it takes a lot of guts for that young woman to stand up and confront -- presumably her Congressman, let's assume she live in Congressman Barney Frank's district.

Well, I mean Democratic members of Congress. Among independents... you know it's -- Republican opposition is hard and that's fine, they're the opposition party. But to try to pass something in a bipartisan fashion it's just going to be…

I praise Senator Max Baucus, who a lot of my friends on the left are criticizing.

I think, of those four, the best is to have some bipartisan, independent truth commission.

I want a truth commission to put all this out. I don't want my country to torture. I want my country to advance its national security, which torture does not.

It'll be a flip-flop. But what he'll do is dress it up.

It -- you know, it will be a flip-flop. But what he will do is dress it up.

Lyndon Johnson used to say, 'I'd rather have him inside the tent on spitting out than outside the tent spitting in.'

Yes, Arlen Specter was about a 64 percent vote reliable; 64 percent of the time he voted with his party as a Republican. I doubt he'll be much more loyal to the Democratic Party.