the worst summers we've ever had in this country. they picked the wrong time to have the summer of recovery. >> let's check the asia trip, the president went over high hopes to get the south korea free trade agreement passed but ended up getting a tongue lashing from our so-called trading partners. >> can you imagine that china got the better of us when it come -- when it came to public relations in currency? i mean, the ultimate currency manipulator tells you how far you've fallen down. first leg of the trip to india, some people sit across $100 million a day. the white house said it didn't, they never told us how much it cost. here's the deal. after the shalacking from the midterm elections, what did the president say? i need to get out of d.c. more. he did. he went to india. he went to -- got nothing accomplished. we got absolutely nothing accomplished for that. that was a really bad economic mistake, i think, on his part. >> meanwhile, perhaps, the worst economic blotch on his record -- >> i think is this year the gulf oil spill without a doubt. it was used -- they saw it as an