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Like the new mayor. >> all this comes -- washington aspect as the president and congressional democrats are going to make their own new push or renewed push on income inequality and it may be a vote tomorrow in the u.s. senate to extend those unemployment benefits which lapsed right after christmas for three months. there's also talk about raising the minimum wage. chuck, do you see this as good policy? good politics? or both? >> well, i'm pretty sure -- excuse me, at least as far as talking about the minimum wage, it is good politics for the democrats. there's -- abundant poll evidence that s...

Like the new mayor. >> all this comes -- washington aspect as the president and congressional democrats are going to make their own new push or renewed push on income inequality and it may be a vote tomorrow in the u.s. senate to extend those unemployment benefits which lapsed right after christmas for three months. there's also talk about raising the minimum wage. chuck, do you see this as good policy? good politics? or both? >> well, i'm pretty sure -- excuse me, at least as far as talking about the minimum wage, it is good politics for the democrats. there's -- abundant poll evidence that s...

>> well, i think the poll evidence is very clear that they've hurt the party. the tea party has gotten less favorable. they're perceived as intransient and the republican party's own negatives are going up and the democratic support and the generic vote is going up. so yes. the tea party has not really stood on principle. they've been divided and their caucus is divided and the net result is that the democrats are benefitting. >> gregg: you know what, cal, maybe the real losers are the folks who have to pay for the $33 billion extension because it comes from home loans to fannie, freddie and f...

Settlements for talks to begin. and i don't think there is any suggestion from netanyahu, the prime minister's office, or anybody serious here connected to power that the israelis are in the business of even considering that. >> and, john, very quickly, speaking of polls and popularity, president obama, his highest popularity ratings yet among israelis according to a new poll i thought i saw. >> that's right, you did. i think just over half of israelis judged his speech at the u.n. to be pro israel and for the president to be pro israel. that helps him amongst israelis. i think -- i haven't se...

They -- president obama owns the trend. had it been a good trend he would get credit. i don't understand how in the world blaming bush, after you you do that, how he can do that >> here's the thing, you are right when you say it is very tough to turn the economy around in the next five or six months. very tough to get unemployment below 8%. unlikely to happen. looking at the poll evidence there's still a sense that bush rather than the democrats creating the mess we are in. blaming him for our economic problems and trying to demonize people like john bane a strategy, not a great strategy, -- j...