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Years after its passage. as of yesterday, $415 billion of that has been spent, that is to say more than half this money has yet to be spent, in fact more money will be spent between 2011 and 2019 than they spent last year when we tied to stimulate the economy. when you stimulate the economy you're supposed to give it a jolt and this put this spending into all kind of government programs and spending efforts. it wasn't designed to be stimulative. the second issue is it's been so pitful in its results it's cost roughly $700,000 for every job created since last december, and we have lost nearly 3...

Republicans are taking notice, and we have the proof. gop mastermind karl rove is out with a blueprint for killing the president's jobs plan, and it's all done by distorting the truth. his organization calls the memo pushing back on stimulus two, tax increases and class warfare. here's an example. americans support jobs for teachers and firemen, but republicans think they can win the argument if they can, quote, cast the issue in terms of government bailouts, end of quote. mitch mcconnell already nailed that talking point. >> the question is whether the federal government ought to be raising t...

Savings. the president told congress last week entitlement such as medicare had to be trimmed to save them but the democrats fiercely oppose changes. lawmakers are likely to cheer the president desire to pay for the plan but not the way he has chosen to be do it. brol? >> bret: jim, thank you. look now at the president strategy. the senior political analyst brit hume joins us. >> he's persisted this after the first stimulus bill by passing another one and he thinks if congress balk he'll have a great issue to hammer republicans next year. but mr. obama is making sure he doesn't use the "s" wor...

Extending the bush tax cuts, stimulus one, stimulus two, t.a.r.p., his treaty with south korea. i've got him far ahead despite the losses in the house. i've got him far ahead, i think with the lame duck congress and everything that happened at the end of the year, obama's presidency is looking really good, despite conventional wisdom. >> i'm recalibrating this season. i'm much recalibrating this season. >> hey, the facts are the facts. >> you are much more exposed to this president than i had ever calculated before. let me go to richard. richard wolffe, you're an objective journalist. what's t...

Energy. what is the nightmare of obese government went away, the ingenuity was ready to create. the current administration's goal is not provide cheap energy in the end, but expensive energy. f.d.r. decides to make the union stronger. sound familiar? regulate price controls, interfere with business. pay higher wages than the amount of productivity justified. obama, he's completely different. he says seiu's life work, his work. obama has fired the ceo of company taking control of the auto makers, banks, you name it. he is coming for you. f.d.r. decided he was going to revive the economy with ma...