than they are now because you have the bush tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. john boehner s idea was go back to the last bush budget and keep all the bush tax cuts. isn t he making the democratic argument that your party s idea iset s go back toh? bus if you want to go back to the world before pelosi andr reid of december of 2006, a lot higher employment and higher income and the middle class was much better off. chris: you can t blame the whole nancial crisis on reid and pelosi. no, but you can blame the level of failure for the last two years and level of spendinu for the last four years on the liberal democrats both in the congress and in the wte house. i would make a deeper argument here. you show you do an economic run of wha this country would yment.ke at 4% unemplo with 5.5% of the country back to work fullime and bringing down the underemployment from 6% to 17% to 7% or 8%, increase