unemployment rate is going to come down. ron brownstein is critical of that prospect of stimulus. it further entrench this is deal, the bush tax cuts, even though the median income and number of americans with jobs are lower today than when the tax cuts were originally signed in 2001. almost unprecedented decade long record of futility. >> be careful with that. the context before the president came out with this deal was a cycle of dysfunction in which democrats are putting forward reasonable ideas like a three-month extension of unemployment, defeated. extending the middle class part of the bush tax cuts. defeated. the republicans are also arguing about the bush tax cuts. what the president was able to do in this negotiation was expand the board beyond just the