barack obama doesn't get re-elected. the party has more invested in economic failure than any out-party than any party i can remember in my lifetime." what's your response to that, e.j.? >> first of all, i'm a big fan of michael wee's, i think and iu wanted to move this economy quickly, they could have picked some stuff out of the president's job plans, which is a pretty mainstream, middle of the road set of proposals, and you look at how hard the president had to fight just to get the payroll tax holiday extended. i mean, tax cuts are supposed to be what republicans are for. and they resisted that for a long time. i think the key number in mike's piece is that public sector job loss number. you know, if president obama is a socialist, it's a pretty weird kind of socialism. because public sector employment has gone down, private sector employment has gone up. if we hadn't lost all of those private sector jobs, we wouldn't be in so much trouble. the stimulus, the much-derided