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Maybe america will happen and i'm wrong, and i hope i am. i don't win in this either. we're all broke. but when you look at the facts of what we're doing and what is happening, sorry, it's darn near impossible to come to any other conclusion that at least, a bare minimum you should consider it a pretty good possibility. not a mortal lock, but a possibility. joe biden says no doubt we're headed in the right direction on the economy. we are just getting started with the news of the day. how about this one? unemployment 9.6%. the real unemployment number is 16.5 for july. government, federal gove...

Spending baseline. who is going to lend us more money? august is normally slow, but recent years, not that unusual but if you have to go to '99, remember people weren't trading from their laptops at home in '99. ebay, you know, the baby wasn't on the blackberry firing off transactions in 1999. that might be alarming for some. a piece of good news that the press would like to report. gas prices are dropping. good for you! it is good for your wallet if you want to go some place. why? why are they dropping? that is the question. national average is $2.70 a go lon. why is it dropping? it's dropped...

And i agree with stephen moore -- >> what? >> not to totally upset the cosmic balance here. i agree that neither side is really reaching out and saying, you know, let's make a deal here. i think it's very hard. and i think the point to keep in mind is like the shutdown of '95-96, this comes at politically a similar time. there's a new republican congress. the momentum in that congress is all from the right. and they, they think they want to, think they want to go to war on this. >> but you know, ali. >> it's interesting, when i talk to the republicans, i think they have a credible case, look, ...

Cut spending, but their spending levels started from such a high baseline they do what they think they're able to do on the spending said and make the up the rest by increasing taxes and i think what we've arrived at is a point here in the states like california and new york, and illinois, where the voters understand that this gain cannot go on forever, that the spending baseline can't just ratchet up year after year and close with tax increases, property taxes, sales taxes, it hit the wall. you can't play that game anymore. >> this is strictly a partisan issue, because you see in some states,...