>> can we do that? because i'm very disturbed by the president actually bragging about increasing spending while greece and portugal and spain and ireland go up in flames and mod moody's saying we could be next. >> the phrase trying to have both ways i think applies in this case. i don't think -- we've never been in american history except in war i'm to sell a poll it ticks of austerity. where you are able to create a sense of shared being a sacrifi people were willing to invest more in a public enterprise. so he's in a very uncomfortable, unfortunate position, i wouldn't want to be in it, where he has to try to bring will thing down in what is, despite -- it is in fact a crisis, but it doesn't feel enough like one. and i think he's trying to