remember when he took offers. 800,000 people were losing their jobs every month, and that has come back to add 3 million jobs back into this economy. i know that doug and other want to say it can't work and people will reject. but the firefighters and the nurses and the republican governors that stablized the economics of their states will say something different when it's proposed again. gregg: it may be true that four out of five americans disapprove of the president's handling of the economy, but the on worse numbers than that are the numbers attributed to congress. your party controls the house. so is it your sense that americans don't like what they are hearing your party? >> americans don't like washington. we learned that in 2006 when we controlled the house and controlled congress and the administration. we learned that in 2008. but we also know we can do stub stan tough thing to create -- we