is at the top of the ticket. i think he made a huge mistake trying to just repeat another stimulus and do that. but look, he needs his base. that was purely a political move, the reasondy that. he's not interested in really fixing the economy. if he was, he would have taken recommendations from his decifit commission. all he wants to to is galvanize his base. martha: it's interesting, he was out playing golf, there were pictures of him playing golf with bill clinton over the weekend, last week bill clinton basically said he thought this millionaire's tax was -- he said it's a good idea, it's not going to do anything for the economy. are you glad he's playing golf with bill clinton and do you hope he takes some of his lessons? >> i certainly do, yeah. clinton has proved to be resilient politics. it's always dangerous to correct my colleague, because she could kill me, but the fact is, congress is on the ballot next year and they have the lowest rating ever. look, the one thing about the democratic base is they may not have been happy with obama, but the one thing that scares them to death is