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Financial crisis and deep recession that began at the end of 2007. joining me with reaction fox news political analyst republican strategist angela mclowan and pete pete. >> the president said he would fix this and cut the deficit in half and get rid of lobby wrists and ear marks. said recovery is right around the corner. watch that. >> the economy is growing stronger. the recovery is speeding up. >> the economy is growing and it started adding hundreds of thousands of jobs each month. >> when our economy is growing and creating jobs at a fast ever clip we he have to do everything in our poure...

Leader with a lot more power. so they're holding back. that does put some pressure on mitch mcconnell. although his aides say he has more than enough votes long up to secure his leadership going forward. he has faced a conservative challenge with voices like senator jim demint who has been a big figure with tea party activists around the country and trying to push the republican leadership in the senate to do things that address some of their concerns. so we have seen some changes in how mitch mcconnell has done business at times. and some of the positions he's taken. namely on things like ear...

There are no more ear marks and right wing blogospheres to monitor everything. >> robert, it strikes me that boehner does understand how to defensively deal with these guys. >> right. >> but he has not yet figured out how to corral them. is that right? >> i think that's fair. he is temperamentally suited for this better than anybody else. i think anybody else would wake up screaming trying to figure out how to herd the cats. and he comes up to ralph hall and says, now we can't herd the cats anymore. and you do feel like from time to time when the freshmen and for that matter a lot of the senio...

the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $16. billion. the buffet tax would have raised ...

from the pig -- i mean, they'll eat anything. the watch dog groups citizens against government waste. what are those dirty spots? something about them is endearing but not endearing about lawmakers. we got the numbers for fiscal year 2012 so we brought some of these friends along from the farm. probably better than a lot of things they usually eat. the good news first, pork is down. since the big push to ban ear marks we have seen a big improvement on capitol hill. some good news. earmark spending down 80% from two years ago. that year there were more than 9,000 earmarks which cost $...