stimulus has worked. and, of course, want to say unemployment is still bad. you look at the job loss numbers and the last year, month by month job loss numbers, bush's last year the job loss numbers went like this. in obama's first year, they went like this. yes. unemployment is still bad but the trend is in the right direction. and i think republicans are swimming upstream and you heard that in michael steele getting caught up in his own metaphor. >> when you tack about the republicans swimming upstream, have the democrats handed them this debate? have they been out aggressively enough, explaining, you know, did they sell it too hard in the beginning? and then not explain it well enough? >> i think that they haven't been doing aggressive on offense messaging much of this year and i think that the scott brown special election in massachusetts, i mean, this is common wisdom one one of the cases is right. did wake up the white house and now they are back on offense. republicans have really got a problem on the stimulus, too. with the hypocrisy issue.