why his message, good messenger, he s resonating with the people. palin, the time is running out to declare. that s coming up in october. she said last night being shackled to an office might stifle the maverick in her. senate democrats will not take the president s jobs plan for a while. majority leader reid saying next week he ll start working on a bill to deal with china s artificial currency instead. what happened to the urgency of pass this jobs bill right away? thomas friedman writes for the new york times. michael mandelman works for the johnop written a book called that used to be us. good day to both of you. thank you, richard. tom, you re aware of the survey of economists and found that they believe that the jobs plan, the president s jobs plan could help to avoid a double dip