tracking their own party. that's what makes them conservedems. in this case the calculous is weird. it means tacking to the right of the democrats, yes, which they love to do but means tacking to right of the democrats into what is clearly an electoral no man's land. joining us now is jared bernstein, former member of president obama's economic team, former economic adviser to vice president joe biden and who is now a senior fellow at the center on budget priorities and msnbc contributor. jared, thanks for being here. >> thank you for inviting me. >> voters are as close as they get to unanimous. that keeping teachers and firefighters and cops on the job is the right thing to do right now. is there anybody else who is opposed to this along with these republican senators and ben nelson? are economists as a group saying this is a bad idea or something? >> no, i mean, you can always find some economist to say something bad about anything. overall it's widely recognized that the president's jobs plan in total is what's needed to start nudging the unemployment