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Debate are blocking this thing and my concern is that they'll probably continue to do so this year. >> you know maria, this struck my attention because some on the right are saying republicans should take credit for the economic recovery. "the new york times" says anti-tax crusader grover norquist, quote, may well have heralded a republican shift on the economy. he credited the budding revival to the party's austerity push. [ laughter ] >> he wants republicans to take credit for improving the economy. i mean does that sound right to you, maria? >> these are the same folks, let's look at where ...

That's right, "the new york times" says grover nor quist may have heralded a republican shift on the economy. he credited the budding revival to the party's austerity push. he wants republicans to take credit for the improving economy. i mean what's next ryan? taking credit for obamacare? >> you know the stimulus in early 2009 is what really stemmed the bleeding and started the turnaround. and at the time, yourself and a lot of others were saying it ought to even be bigger. >> right. >> grover nor quist was not one of those people who was saying we need more stimulus. they started calling it t...

Told they were unpatriotic. i don't see that same language going at republicans. there has been just as much damage to the world, maybe much more damage to america's standing in the world by saying we're ready to default compared to democrats saying should we invade iraq, for instance. >> they're having the same conversations in the uk as we're having here when it comes to pensions, when it comes to workers rights, unions, health care and the expenses and how to control it. there's a huge austerity push there as well. what we do in our congress, does it affect their mindset over there? the wor...

Said in a joint press conference with john boehner, are you kidding? the president said the private secretary sir doing fine. justin, this is going to be something we hear about again and again and again and again. the notion, an out of touch thing, which was, i think, largely mitt romney's purview until now. here's a guy that doesn't understand the real economy. now that's used, republicans are great at flipping an argument the democrats have been using on -- >> obama is pretty good at that, too. >> the private economy, because the upper 1%, the ceos, big corporations, are sitting on billions...

Congressional republicans are moving off their austerity push, so will any of the president's plans make it through congress? neighbors's luke russert is on capitol hill for us. luke, we're looking forward to the president's job plan to be outlined next week, and house republicans, of course, have their own ideas on jobs with the majority leader eric cantor coming on with his list of top ten job killers, as you know, namely unions and the epa, so is this going to be a partisan showdown all over again? >> reporter: most likely it will be, martin. i found it interesting when the president said h...