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Them more money they would spend it. for instance, in 2009 they totally missed the idea that, hey, guess what, consumers were actually going to act more conservatively, small c, and pay down their debt and they didn't spend the money on the economy, therefore blowing the forecast of what the stimulus would do. is that right? >> that's right. and in a sense that's what happened in the business community as well, that what the data show is that there's an extraordinary amount of uncertainty that is in the economic environment essentially deriving from the crisis of october, september, the latter...

In politics. there's a great sort of ideological wobbliness at the heart of republican politics. they want to say they are small government, small c conservatives. at the same time, they are unwilling to give up socially conservative aims through big intrusive government policies. if you're all for small government, state rights, local control, you wouldn't want the federal government to be wading in to overthrow a decision that d.c. made for itself about gay marriage, would you? if you believe in small government and individual liberty, the idea the government would mandate what it is your do...

Culture war stuff. defund npr. have the federal government overrule gay marriage in washington, d.c., and of course, make abortion super difficult to get, even if you have to do it by raising taxes. the republican party post bush and post mccain has settled on an image that is small government, that has libertarian talking points at least, but that is now how they are acting. it is not what they are doing in politics. there's a great sort of ideological wobbliness at the heart of the republican politics right now which is that they want to convince the country they are small government, small ...

Culture war stuff. defund npr. have the federal government overrule gay marriage in washington, d.c., and of course, make abortion super difficult to get, even if you have to do it by raising taxes. the republican party post bush and post mccain has settled on an image that is small government, that has libertarian talking points at least, but that's not what they are doing in politics. there's a great sort of ideological wobbliness at the heart of republican politics. they want to say they are small government, small c conservatives. at the same time, they are unwilling to give up socially co...