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Care bill was totally wrong, but because the country wanted him focused on the jobs crisis, and they went on this tangent on dealing with health care. megyn: well, the brain room was pointing out during that same period of time the payroll employment decreased by over one million while he was making that health care push, so he keeps talking about health care, health care, health care, once a week, and people are saying, where are the jobs? monica, the white house has come out before and said it...

The american people, basically, from day one have been telling this administration and the democrats at large that its not a messaging problem, its a content problem, its a philosophical problem, its an ideological problem. but more importantly, its a results problem. this administration has failed to produce any kind of significant economic results whether its economic growth on the jobs front, you name it. the american people are saying, wait a minute, you just drilled us $4 trillion more into...

Not to mention the joint session of congress he had on it. really? it was the messaging? >> well, um, i have to say i think the presidents self-analysis is totally accurate, but its also totally inadequate. he has failed fundamentally to communicate to the american people a vision for the country, um, and where we are and where he wants to take us. and part of that is setting expectations that this recession was going to take a long time -- megyn: he also speaks to that. >> he does, but he did n...

Doing. can they make that work until 2012? >> not that they are offering nothing. they have a healthcare plan, affordable care act on the table and when they put the plan up there and they now it has some cuts in terms of medicare advantage in it, all republicans did was use scare tactics and talk about death panels and this is terrible and intrusive government. the fact is now with the paul ryan plan the republicans have put something on the table that is extremely unpopular as we just saw in t...

2012? >> not that they are offering nothing. they have a healthcare plan, affordable care act on the table and when they put the plan up there and they now it has some cuts in terms of medicare advantage in it, all republicans did was use scare tactics and talk about death panels and this is terrible and intrusive government. the fact is now with the paul ryan plan the republicans have put something on the table that is extremely unpopular as we just saw in the special election and all of this t...

Doing. can they make that work until 2012? >> not that they are offering nothing. they have a healthcare plan, affordable care act on the table and when they put the plan up there and they now it has some cuts in terms of medicare advantage in it, all republicans did was use scare tactics and talk about death panels and this is terrible and intrusive government. the fact is now with the paul ryan plan the republicans have put something on the table that is extremely unpopular as we just saw in t...

>> reporter: republicans chalk up their loss to a third party candidate aligned with the tea party who they say drained support from corwin. whatever the spin, it seems clear that without the ryan medicare plan, republicans would have been able to hold on to the seat. democrats think theyve finally found a winning issue. an abc news poll last month found that 65% of americans oppose a voucher system for medicare. republicans have a medicare messaging problem. they voted for a piece of legislatio...

Messaging problem all year in that their legislative agenda sometimes looked less like jobs, jobs, jobs and more like abortion, abortion, abortion. the third bill republicans filed after taking control of the house, hr-3 was a bill to raise taxes on abortion. raising taxes and abortion above all over all other priorities. not great messaging for house republicans. luckily, though, osama bin laden just got killed by a bunch of navy s.e.a.l.s so while the media is 100% occupied with that, republic...

And you know what? it happened in congress, too. house republicans had a messaging problem all year in that their legislative agenda sometimes looked less like jobs, jobs, jobs and more like abortion, abortion, abortion. the third bill republicans filed after taking control of the house, hr-3, was a bill to raise taxes on abortion. raising taxes and abortion above all over all other priorities. not great messaging for house republicans. luckily, though, osama bin laden just got killed by a bunch...

Messaging problem all year in that their legislative agenda sometimes looked less like jobs, jobs, jobs and more like abo aborti abortion, abortion, abortion. the third bill republicans filed after taking control of the house, hr-3 was a bill to raise taxes on abortion. raising taxes and abortion above all over all other priorities. not great messaging for house republicans. luckily, though, osama bin laden just got killed by a bunch of navy s.e.a.l.s so while the media is 100% occupied with tha...