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Of federal dollars in order to prop up their company, so they are in direct competition with seniors for federal money, and so you're going to put -- you're going to put the ceo of honeywell on this commission to decide our federal policy is towards spending that. doesn't make any sense if you're coming from a progressive perspective. >> i'm hearing you. that's what i was saying in the beginning. help me answer the question. why is he doing it? >> it seems like the administration's political team has bought into the idea that deficit concerns are going to really damage democrats in the mid-ter...

Political matter it would be very shortsighted to take steps that would send you had backward. why did ox rod flip-flop and think all of a sudden it's a bad political and policy idea to do job stimulus in the middle of this enormous problem with jobs and go in the other direction? >> right. that's the bizarre part because he clearly recognizes that you don't solve the economic problem that you're going to get wiped out politically, so he recognizes that. he still gives the -- you know, he still says, look, we need to handle the deficit and still highlights the deficit concerns, and the very ac...

James rosen has more on that live in washington d.c. hey, james. >> reporter: yeah. it's no way to balance a checkbook, megyn. this is one of those votes coming up later today that could leave an incumbent exposed to his or her challenger in a midterm election year because each with polls showing americans are very concerned about deficit is spending, no one wants to be seen opposing the helping hand for unemployed people down on their luck. the republican colleagues who have cited deficit concerns in their opposition to h.r. 4851, that's snappily entitled the continuing extension act of 2010....