off people because i think you don t know where things are headed, right? explain what you mean? you bet. the uncertainty that is out there, seams that the whole deal today is blame somebody, blame bush, blame obama. blame somebody. we have to clear up the uncertainties. the bush tax cuts. we don t need to muddy the waters with discussion of the tax cuts. they should be left in place to be reviewed possibly sometime in the future, if appropriate. neil: you re saying all of the tax cuts? even those to the wealthy and all? absolutely! neil, the bottom line here is the wealthy part of it is a small part of the whole deal. we don t need to create another opportunity for more confusion, more fighting. we need to fix what is
gregg: welcome back, democrats launching an ad campaign in t run-up to the elections, the dnc dusting off an old theme, called blame bush or bashing bush and will it work with an angry electorate and a sputtering economy? take a listen: america faces a big choice, do we continue to move forward like democrats are doing? investing in education, for every child, manufacturing right here at home? clean energy, pouring a nwering economy and do we hold big business accountable when they ve gone too far or do we go back to the same republican policies that got us into the mess. this fall, our choice is clear. the democratic national committee is responsible for the content of this advertising. gregg: joining me is the deputy
nancy reagan took an enormous amount of criticism for her expensive taste in the 80s was a terrible recession going on there were a lot of marie antoinette to nancy reagan as you are hearing michelle antoinette now. hillary clinton started out very badly. even in the campaigner remember the whole i could have stayed home and baked cookies thing not that popular started at 57% when clinton took office. a few months later after travelgate she was at 47%. as whitewater dragged on for months and months and years and years she ended up into the 30s didn t rise up again until the lewinsky scandal and her popularity went up. laura bush was not that well-known when george w. bush became president. her ratings went up with george w. bush s after september 11th and stayed up in 2005 there were 65% and in 2007 when bush was just
necessarily they are in a rotten position to say take responsibility for it. true. another thing happening which is tone and bearing. for example, monday president obama went to texas, bush country and went after bush there. on the very same day, almost within the same hour that president bush announced he was headed to haiti to work on the haiti recovery effort at the request of president obama. people see this. they are unhappy with the numbers. they might blame bush. they might be mad at bush. if you cancel our house and you can t find a job you want to know what the guys in power now are going to do. great the economy he was handed was a lousy one. but he does own the trend in february when he shifted our whole direction by the stimulus, if it had been successful he gets all credit. [ talking over each other ] greta: at the least he owns the trend. right now the trend is lousy.
of republicans and democrats in the white house. thank you that we ve seen the failure of the stimulus so far the only strategy has been more stimulus. this week we have another 30 billion dollar spending bill. you don t throw good money after bad. if something isn t working you change strategies. greta: it is disturbing. i have a great job. you have a great job. there are a lot of people who don t have any job. to have these numbers jobless claims go up. unemployment level it is unbearable. artificially low. nothing more demoral rise hraoeutz nothing more demoralizing than not having a job. greta: either people who don t have jobs and think it is a bad economy are delusional or the white house is delusional. the fact is people are hurting. all we are hearing from the white house is stick with the program, spend more on the third thing they say is, it is bush s fault.