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President bush, you'll remember him. mr. obama's are in blue and so are his increases in the past few months. let's turn first to howard fineman, also senior washington correspondent, political columnist for "newsweek" magazine. howard, good evening. >> hi, keith. >> how much steeper would a rebound in that chart have to be for republicans to say, wowee, america sure is lucky to have barack obama in the white house? >> republicans are never going to do that, and to its credit, the white house isn't expecting them to. and as you said, he was being careful not to overpromise or overcrow if i can...

That's made the economy robust. whether it was public works projects and road building a century and a half ago, where today we're dealing with human capital. and if i can make a point here, the census is about collecting data on the great human capital that are the people of the united states. there's actually gold in them there hills, keith. that data is valuable. so even looked at in republican terms, this is a very valuable thing that the census workers are doing, even if you don't want to look at the human side of the equation. >> but you know this, if obama managed to hire personally 275...

Thrust by making things difficult for the consumer or the doctors. another way would be to simply take advantage of what the health care bill fails to do. for example, adults with preexisting conditions do not get mandated coverage until 2014. until 2014, there is no prohib igs on companies raising premiums at outrageous rates. aetna and cigna. well point is trying to meet new laws about the ratio of your money that goes to your care, joining me now as promised former head of public relations for cigna, currently the senior fellow on health care for the center for media and democracy, weeke we...

Names? keith keitherson. you may have noticed limbaugh does not take well to criticism. speaking of mr. obama, limbaugh asked, who has called him a nazi? who do we know that's called him a nazi? socialist? yeah. stalinist? yeah. nazi? we compare health care in america to what the nazis tried to do in germany and get the control of the people in that regard. limbaugh is hiding behind a very small fig leaf in this regard, sorry for that imagery. each tea party features obama with a hitler mustache, swastika or both. he said adolf hitler, like barack obama, also ruled by dictate. last august 10th...

Democrats to stand up, and we need a clear message, cut it out. cut it out. we don't appreciate lunacy or threats on either side of the equation. let's get back to what made this country a very special place. but somebody's got to do it. somebody's got to do it and it's got to be done in a bipartisan way. if we ever needed a ronald reagan or a jack kennedy or barry goldwater we need him now. i think the president is trying. he's trying his best but he's in a very hostile atmosphere. he's got to fight back. as you may recall i was on the air early on saying, let's fight back. but fight back bec...