had unemployment of 4 to 5%. neil: and a boom in the market. yeah. it s then scandal. scandals s the third factor. it s a mix of the three and you look to the two party basis. who is angrier. neil: they come out in midterm. michelle s point, they re midterm election participants. if you re a strong democrat in a red state you don t want to deal with answering the scandals. the democrats are good at getting out the vote. neil: absolutely. and one thing i would say is this, they were got a getting out the vote but president obama won electoral landslide 50.98%. is that enough to translate into taking over the house when you have scandal and the economy is just not that much better. we re not in 1997 bill clinton bubble. neil: if you ve been beaten down enough and all it takes is
know, the thoughts they think of aided by these kind of press conferences. when the president doesn t say, guys, america s got to take a little bit of pain now to avoid a whole lot of pain in the future. that s presidential. that s stepping up to the plate instead. it s going to be armageddon, lights out. and what is even crazier, the democrats in the senate offered an alternative to the 85 billion dollars in cuts, included some tax increases and cuts, some cuts ten years out, zero net spending cuts in this thing. the democrats do not want to cut spending and they re hoping that some small cuts lead to armageddon and it will not and it will bite them in the and the president wanted 50.98% of the vote. neil: i thought was 97, 98? it mute be 98. i thought was 99. he acts like it s 99%, he s running around saying he s not a dictator, guess what? he acts like one sometimes. neil: well, there s no progress. we know that.