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A governor who had his budget passed and you have lost jobs every month since that budget has passed. how aggressive should president obama be? >> yeah, it's a tale of two leaders here, you have the president where we've seen 23 consecutive months of job growth in our country, compared to a governor who has seen six consecutive months of job losses. you've seen a president who is willing to work with the working man, willing to work with unions and you have a governor who is striking him down and trying to work against him and not willing to collaborate. it's a huge contrast. what is really in...

Posterity. >> the unemployment rate of 16 to 24 now in this country is close to 50%. it's astonishing. >> at the same time, the president somehow needs to stay with his base and make sure he keeps the support that he has there, his poll numbers still holding strong. sam stein i'm going to read from your article in "the huffington post." obama okay with base. how far can the administration go in alienating its progressive base without repercussion? combined with the disappointments, concerns have mounted even further that the gusto to vote simply won't be there in 2010. sam? >> well, you know, ...

Health care bill through, even through reconciliation, would progressive base be so discouraged that democratic majority would be in greater danger in 2010? >> it would be worse for democratic base if they don't pass it. that bolsters the current bad system than a bill not passing. both openintions are bad from a democratic perspective. >> 55% of americans want a public option. we have a preview of "meet the press" with moderator david gregory. we'll bring in chuck todd as we have continuing coverage of the snowstorm that's blanketing the northeast. you're watching "morning joe" brewed by star...

Our problem is we're not tough enough. if george bush had been president of the united states and wanted health care reform -- an unlikely scenario, but if he wanted it would have been on his desk by eight months because jonge bush used reconciliation the budget process to pass everything with 51 votes five times. we haven't used it once. we haven't shown the spine to do that. we need once again a spinal transplant in the democratic party to play hardball. this is what -- the country is at stake. this is not about democrat versus republican anymore but about whether we want to move forward and...

So-called progressive base that he's one of them and makes the worst decision of his presidency. he's going to have civilian trials for terrorists in new york city. then the massachusetts results come n. and he realizes, whoa, we're out of sync with the american people, so he sends his press secretary out, not just anybody, but his spokesman out, robert gibbs, to say let me just read thank you quote very briefly, megyn, gibbs said khalid shaikh mohammed is going to meet justice and he's going to meet his maker. he will be brought to justice and he's likely to be executed for the heinous crimes...