texas, she gets mad at pundits talking about the last eight years of failed polices, she's referring to the bush administration there, she says dems had the house and senate for bush of -- six of bush's eight years. why is this argument not thrown back at the democratic pundits? maria, you're a democratic pundit. >> absolutely and i'm one that uses that argument very often and the reality is that democrats did not have control for six of those eight years, they had control for two of those eight years, and it's tough to reverse in two years what was already in play for six of those eight years, so i think that it is absolutely real for democrats to continue to point out that president obama did not come into the oval office on a level playing field. he was handed a $1.5 trillion decifit from the bush administration, from those failed economic polices, and he has had to do what is necessary to get us out of that incredibly