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virginia. ryan monroe is the editor of cnnpolitics.com. he's joining us from our washington bureau. sources telling cnn that it will be paul ryan. what do you think? what do you think he brings to the ticket? >> this is either going to be his boldest move or probably his riskiest mistake. paul ryan is a galvanizing force. for conservative republicans, he's seen as the voice behind conservatism. he is the voice that wants to get rid of medicare. if either of those are truthful, it will be a lightning rod in this campaign. >> why make the announcement today, saturday morning, olympics ...

It was a much, much worse recession than we knew at the time. mitt romney takes full advantage of that. but we're seeing the flip side not to the same degree but as all the revisions tend to be bad early on as you begin to recover, as models haven't picked that up yet, they are tending to be good now. you're seeing it happen in the other but insofar as revisions are political, they haven't benefitted from them. >> what do you make as a wonky guy, ezra, what do you make from people in other venues on the right that any indicators, any economic indicators that show things getting better, particu...

These revisions were terrible, much worse recession than we knew at the time. mitt romney takes full advantage of that. but we're seeing the flip side not to the same degree but as all the revisions tend to be bad early on as you begin to recover, as models haven't picked that up yet, they are tending to be good now, you're seeing it happen in the other but insofar as revisions are political, they haven't benefited from them. >> what do you makes a a wonky guy, ezra, what do you make from people in other venues on the right that any indicators, any economic indicators that show things getting ...

>>neil: normally we do not usually wonk out here although i am a wonky guy. the dow was up 143 points. do you know why? because the news wasn't as awful as we have had, only 391,000 americans filed for jobless claims. that was reason to party. and the latest quarter 1.3 percent growth for the economy. it should be like, what, four or five times that. sense our heads were not beat were against the wall we regis -- rejoice. and now, my guest says this is the kind of reaction you get to news that otherwise is pathetic. and we are pathetic. and the market is pathetic. it is weird. >>guest: it is. ...