toward the center more sensible about the economy and try to tag team on romney with this bain thing which is failing. are you saying he s not getting re-elected right now? is that what you are saying. i m saying if the election were held tomorrow or monday morning or tuesday morning, he would not win. that s ridiculous. that s absolutely absurd. and corey backer, dianne feinstein, deavailable patrick, ed rendell, all democrats saying the same thing. it s not just gill clinton. and we talked about this a lot, the expectations at the white house raised for themselves in 2008. they are the ones that said if we didn t pass the stem plus unemployment would go above 8%, and by the way, where s the rest of that stimulus money? exactly. there was a chart this morning with the stimulus the white house put out, that unemployment would never go above 8 and at this time in the recovery it would be under 5, 5.5%, and without the stimulus
it will be as high as 6%, 6.5% and meanwhile it s 8. when they first came out with the prediction, you never know. you can t tell the circumstances or whatever you want to blame it on in the future, you never know. and same goes for the stock market. and the recovery. are you all suggesting that the economy that lost jobs as a result of that? no, i m saying it didn t do as promised. they have done quite well. can we play one more sound bite? let s do another edited sound bite. david axelrod, on the trail, sr. great for president obama, when he was unveiling the portrait. will listen to axelrod yesterday. i get tweets from some of these folks so i feel close to them. [chanting in the background] you can shout down speakers myself, but it s hard to etch a step the truth away. [laughter] if i were him i wouldn t have
integrated into and the budgets and when it was gone, it was considered a shortfall. and that s one of the questions, like i said, we had stimulus money from last year, that money s not there this year, so now we have this deficit. they pulled from the budget a little bit last year to make things ends meet. yeah, yeah. nearly $34 billion of stimulus money went to the state of pennsylvania. it helped keep the state alive. the people sitting at the table understand that, yet mitt romney is running around the country telling folks that the stimulus didn t work. behind closed doors, he s telling wealthy donors that he s going to make major cuts to the department of education, but on the road, that s what he hears from the folks. he didn t say any of that to the people sitting at the picnic table, did he? he couldn t even tell them that public education is important, because he doesn t think it is. mitt romney has been running for president for the last six years and he doesn t kn
it helped keep the state alive. the people sitting at the table understand that, yet mitt romney is running around the country telling folks that the stimulus didn t work. behind closed doors, he s telling wealthy donors that he s going to make major cuts to the department of education, but on the road, that s what he hears from the folks. he didn t say any of that to the people sitting at the picnic table, did he? he couldn t even tell them that public education is important, because he doesn t think it is. mitt romney has been running for president for the last six years and he doesn t know what to say to these folks. he doesn t have any answers. worse yet, he doesn t have any solutions. let s bring in sam stein, political reporter, huffington post. sam, good to have you with us tonight. thanks, ed. okay, i m partisan, i m a liberal, i m a democrat. the tape doesn t look good, sam. well, i thought it was actually a very telling moment. one of the, you know, more important ear
understand that, yet mitt romney is running around the country telling folks that the stimulus didn t work. behind closed doors, he s telling wealthy donors that he s going to make major cuts to the department of education, but on the road, that s what he hears from the folks. he didn t say any of that to the people sitting at the picnic table, did he? he couldn t even tell them that public education is important, because he doesn t think it is. mitt romney has been running for president for the last six years and he doesn t know what to say to these folks. he doesn t have any answers. worse yet, he doesn t have any solutions. let s bring in sam stein, political reporter, huffington post. sam, good to have you with us tonight. thanks, ed. okay, i m partisan, i m a liberal, i m a democrat. the tape doesn t look good, sam. well, i thought it was actually a very telling moment. one of the, you know, more important early campaign telling moments, because it got to this distinction