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Like the energy efficient l.e.d. lighting maker mr. obama visited today created two-third of new jobs in the last 15 years. the white house says the two recent small business stimulus proposals should appeal to republicans and are a test of whether they're interested in bipartisanship. republicans say the president's budget calls for spending hikes, long after the congressional budget office feels the xy could have recovered. >> revenues will get back above their historic norm, which is 18.2%. that's historic norm. they get up to 20%. fairly soon. as we get out of this recession. but spending ...

Andy mckenna, long-time fundraiser for the state party. state senator kurt diller knows his way around the government and budget and is endorsed by former republican gor jim edgar. the trump card for the republican primary winner is the blagojevich corruption trial scheduled to begin sometime this summer. reminding voters again of the scandal-plagued democratic blagojevich administration as voters begin to make up their minds. bret? >> bret: steve brown live tonight in chicago. thank you. in arkansas, democratic senator blanche lincoln is 23 points behind a republican who isn't even officially...

Credibility in the region. they are sowing the seeds for their own destruction. >> bret: city of springfield, illinois, want president obama to pay his tab. while the president wants to use more of your tax dollars to pay for job ecreation.

Disadvantage. >> no question it could happen here. it will be more difficult year for democrats in illinois tan massachusetts because of the corruption scandals. >> the real issue is not who wins the democratic party. the real issue is that seat is in play no matter who wins the democratic primary in november, because the republicans are nominating a legitimate candidate to run and they haven't done it for u.s. senate for a very long time. >> reporter: it's a pretty dire assessment when even democratic candidates are comparing the situation in illinois to the one in which republicans won in ma...

Armies have already done this. i think we ought to study how it should be done in the most reasonable way but i think it is a good idea to get it underway and get it started. >> bret: there are many in the military, many on the political right who think this is the wrong idea and it would be bad for the military and bad for command and control. what about that argument and how it is playing on capitol hill? >> i think what is interesting in speaking to people in the mill terry, i get the sense that there are people who personally support it as charles does but feel institutionally as a whole t...