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But first, bottom line it for me. we'll go around the table. what happened yesterday with the president, john heilemann? >> the president made history. and took a significant political risk, but one that i think the white house is comfortable it's in his interest to do. >> i would agree with john, but i would add that what the president did yesterday was have his words match his considerable deeds. not confirming doma against a court challenge, saying he would sign a repeal. he had already done all the things that signalled his evolution was complete. yesterday he announced that indeed the evo...

Of a financial crisis. if you were a democrat, all you really needed to get elected was a pulse. you had to not be associated with george bush and republicans. this time it's a tougher argument to make, and the fact that obama is talking about raising taxes is making a lot of democrats leery. >> joe? >> josh, it seems that right now, the attitude of the electorate, and reading your piece and reading a lot of polls, fairness is great and fine, but bottom line it, we want to get america back to work. at the end of the day, the question always goes back to, what will stimulate the economy? what w...

If he goes down, if the thing he ran on, the thing he worked on so hard got 60 votes in the senate, got to his desk and signed so proudly with everyone there, from, you know, caroline kennedy to everybody was there, and to have that erased from history, you say he wouldn't be focused on that? >> i don't think he'd be pleased. any way you slice it, two weeks ago, one week, four days, you ask anyone coming on the show today, what's the election going to be about? everyone would say this is about the economy, jobs, jobs, jobs. i think by the time we get to election day, no matter what, that's wha...

If he goes down, if the thing he ran on, the thing he worked on so hard got 60 votes in the senate, got to his desk and signed so proudly with everyone there, from, you know, caroline kennedy to everybody was there, and to have that erased from history, you say he wouldn't be focused on that? >> i don't think he'd be pleased. any way you slice it, two weeks ago, one week, four days, you ask anyone coming on the show today, what's the election going to be about? everyone would say this is about the economy, jobs, jobs, jobs. i think by the time we get to election day, no matter what, that's wha...

President. a new record card from the american people shows disapproval of congress is at an all-time high. "the washington post"/abc news poll shows 84% disapprove. just 13% approve, as congress convenes, nancy pelosi gave her two cents. >> here's the point, to bottom line it. if the far right thought that romney could win, they might more enthusiastic about them. they question what he stands r for. all right. so on to another big topic. a conservative historian says he has a solution.