dana: were you going to give him as on that? i wish you were my algebra teacher in junior high. eric: you can t give him an a in unemployment. done nothing but go up. more americans are living under the poverty level now than ever before in history. bob: i don t think it has a single thing to the with obama. unemployment going up. nor under bush or reagan or anybody else. you keep talking about the free market system. the market system to determine whether you have jobs or not. dana: if government policies don t matter, why would we want to pass the second stimulus bill? bob: you didn t want to go in a depression. dana: the one now? bob: because they think you probably will be able to create and maintain jobs. if it s up to me it would be $2 trillion. greg: bob should be happy. every debate is disappointed christmas. you expect a bicycle and you get an ugly sweater. dana: like mine. greg: no. dana: i love my sweater!
places or other sources. that s how it has always worked. i don t see the problem. bob: politico when asked the question specifically did you get this from a campaign dodge, ducked around it. it it s got to mean they got it from a campaign, right? greg: when we first started the five, dave was sending the stories to the second floor about my past. didn t work. nice try. dana: i tried to sabotage you. greg: i think that cain made a mistake in the sense that we are beginning to understand ubiquitousness of sexual harassment claims because they are having everywhere, many are inherently meaningless, done as safeguard, future reputation damaging things. you might not be guilty. he could have explained that. saying yeah, it happened. eric: quick story. 12 years ago i was involved in financial suit, not harassment suit. someone sued me for $400,000. completely frivolous.
everything? eric: it s true. he spent double time talking about the smoking than the economic policy. andrea: he is obsessed with smoking. in 2010 he had john boehner, smoking on the show and chided him for not just smoking but accepting donation from tobacco companies. b. schaefer did? andrea: yeah. boehner said listen, the american people have the right to make their own decision. butt out. bob: i ll say in defense of bob schaefer. he s one of the most decent human bngs i met in my life. i didn t know he had cancer. look at the pigture of cain s campaign manager. talk about a guy that got lost. he is a strange cat. this guy campaigned for us in wisconsin. nobody is allowed to do campaign. that rule, nobody applied it.
haunt republicans. they will be better. not appreciably better but better. they run the ad at this stage of the game. this time next year, they will say the expectations were terrible. now we re coming back. eric: not necessarily because of the numbers they ran the ad. they ran the ad because obama said after three years if things aren t better in the economy i ll be a one-termer. bob: one line you wish you had back. dana: if after four years things are better eric: let s play the game. bob: let s not. eric: obama report card. except your phone is ringing. 7.8%. now 9.1%. is that an f ? andrea: f. eric: misery index, bob. 9.7%. that is unemployment and it s 13% now. what should we give them? greg: f. eric: dana, food stamps? dana: you re blocking my view. eric: 28 million when he started in 2008.
re-elected, because half of the population is dependent on government. he creates government. they want entitlement. he delivers entitlement. he is the entitlement pusher. we are the entitlement addic addicts. andrea: that is why he wants to give them more. greg: that is the whole point. brilliant strategy. give, give, give. they need him. bob: 75% of the government. eric: powerful ad, though. dana: i think it s hard-hitting. in fact, i was thinking ooh, that would hurt if you were watching it back at home. we are, when we talk about a year away what kind of people are we, we count the days till the election, not to christmas? i don t know how i can t tell you how many days it is. greg: we re bad people. dana: tough ad. things are not going to get appreciably better economically before that. they ll probably have a little bit of a pickup. this will come down to this