need big tax cuts or that the rich need big tax cuts. but that's not enough, craig. it's necessary for both the democrats, both the president, and also assuming the republican nominee is romney, to come up with a real plan for getting people back to work. it'll be beyond slogans and attacks on each other. >> i want to put this up on the screen for folks at home from your new book. our politics has become nastier, more polarized and increasingly paralyzed, compromise is more difficult, elections are more venomous. political advertising increasingly negative as well. you basically say that this is an effect. this is not the cause of a litany of problems in washington but rather the effect of problems. explain. >> when people are frustrated economically, when they are insecure, when they are anxious and when they're angry because they've done everything that they were told they needed to do to get ahead and they're not