jobs. >> the trend going in the right direction, how do they seal these extreme pictures like the president is doing nothing and anti the progress to take forward? >> when you are talking about the economy it is really kind of difficult to really cover it in a soundbite. it is really ripe for obfuscation and that is exactly what you are seeing the republicans doing. they are pretending that the progress hasn't been made. they shudder at the thought that people are going to start looking at their 401(k)s again and see they have increased in value. this has got to be really, really something dangerous as far as the republican candidates are concerned. i think it explains why they are focusing so much now on religion and the various other social issues. they are beginning to sound as a matter of fact sometimes like passive aggressive taliban. >> let me go back to you, dana. the president was out again today pushing, raise tax on