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.
absolutely in the base as far as ratings are concerned, she was in the mid 50s. greta: one of the most colorful and one of my favorites barbara bush, how were her numbers? rated well the whole time well liked first lady even at the end of the george h work bush s presidency when george h.w. bush s presidency, didn t get credit for winning the first gulf war her approval ratings stayed in the 60s. greta: does it make a difference what first lady obama s numbers are. i must admit i m fascinated. does it make a difference or impact as to whether they roll her out to help with the midterm campaigning? it does. when there was bad publicity after the spain trip one of the ways the white house pushed back was to say she remains extremely popular and candidates around the country want her to campaign for them, because she is so, so popular.
if her approval ratings were to continue to go done a little more, perhaps there would be fewer candidates wanting her to campaign and she would not be the democrats secret weapon or their biggest asset as we ve seen in some press accounts. greta: what i think is a mistake she relatively invincible. she doesn t do interviews. we to know more of laura bush, obviously a different time we had eight years of mrs. bush only a year and may have of mrs. obama we to know secretary of state clinton, we to know all the first ladies. she doesn t end view. she doesn t interview. she got in a little trouble in the campaign becoming proud of her country for the first name her adult life when her husband did well politically. she seemed a little gun shy after that she has embraced a universally approved issue which is nutrition and childhood obesity. on the other hand there s this
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.
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