that needs a job than you have jobs that can support them. these are designed to have the best possible impact. even david brooks says if you want to start cutting the deficit this is his word, this would be an insane place to begin. >> there's been a great deal of analysis about the democrats' challenge in trying to rally their base for the mid terms but are republicans really intending to go into november on something that can either be thrown against them or might even campaign this way, we voted against wall street reform, voted against jobless benefits, and by the way more tax cuts for the wealthy without any offsets? >> it appears that way. their argument is based on convincing people stimulus doesn't work. they would say if you would pay for unemployment benefits we would pay for it. this is from the perspective of getting the economy going again. what we're doing is bailing water from one part of the boat into another part of the boat. but that will be the effort here. right now we have a pretty schizophrenic voter population.