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We tend to be stuck in some of the same ruts and we tend to talk ourselves into the idea that we are making progress when we are not. is the republican party in a position that they have moved on from the bush/cheney years, or are we about to re-live them? >> it's hard to believe that even most republicans want to relive them. in fact, this whole, you know, tact that romney's taking that you just described is really odd. i mean, i don't think -- the republican base, some of it's to the right of bush/cheney. they regard him almost as a leftist now, given how the party has changed in the tea par...

The same ruts and we tend to talk ourselves into the idea that we are making progress when we are not. is the republican party in a position that they have moved on from the bush/cheney years, or are we about to re-live them? >> it's hard to believe that even most republicans want to relive them. in fact, this whole, you know, tact that romney's taking that you just described is really odd. i mean, i don't think -- the republican base, some of it's to the right of bush/cheney. they regard him almost as a leftist now, given how the party has changed in the tea party era, but this sort of reviva...

With the numbers. good morning. >> good morning, john. let me read you how bloomberg news is framing this jobs report. they note that with the additional job gains this month plus with the revisions in february and march, that for the first time president obama can now say he has created net plus jobs, meaning 5 million jobs that were lost during the bush/cheney years, have been put back. how do you react to that? >> well, i have a different perspective, chuck. i think i the obama campaign should thank its slogan from forward to backward. this is an extraordinarily weak monthly jobs report. th...

Op-ed from the "wall street journal" today. the headline is al qaeda is far from defeated. seth jones points to yes, ma'am men and somalia and pakistan where he says al qaeda is regrouping and writes, al qaeda is far from dead, acting as if it were whether not will not make it so. is there a fine line that the white house is walking with this? or is it all up side for help? >> i have a lot of respect for seth jones. and you could also add to the mix david petraeus now head of the cia has asked for expanded military authority to expand the drone attacks against targets in yes, ma' yemen. but i ...

That recalling the bush/cheney years is a great idea, is a great way to take over the congress in 2010 and set up a victory in 2012. so but it's interesting. cheney was clearly seen as something of a father's figure if not a patron saint of for this group of activists there. i don't see where that goes. >> to me it's interesting. to see cheney revered in that way, to see him rise above every other figure there. obviously he's not going to run again. but when he talks about the bush legacy both on fiscal matters and particularly on national security matters, he's saying secretly within the admi...