republicans have answered, as we heard in the sound bite, before with massive tax cuts, and i basically think that the republicans have been irresponsible. i think charles krauthammer overstates the case. martha: there's a lot of discussion out there, obviously, about the debt, the decifit, and the polls show us that people do care about bringing it down, they do want to see spending cuts, as well as some of these other idea that is are out there, christian, so is the president being genuine in what he's saying about his own record in his administration? >> no, not at all, unfortunately. if you look at 2009, which is the year they sort of talk about as this horrible year, it was an anomaly, we had to have the stimulus, we had to have the bailouts, and democrats want to blame this on republican, but then to answer -- that doesn't answer the question of why 2010 and 2011 all looked just as bad. so yeah, the rate of growth of the spending didn't really change that much, because they kept doing a terrible year, over and over again. i think that's what voters