and for some answers let's bring in our political panel angela mcglowan, and a former chief of staff to joe manchin. it boggles the mind, the president with a jobs council the last year january, 2012. unemployment tad, angela and chris, 8.5% and now fallen to 7.8%, but while it's a good thing it's falling, there are till 21 million unemployed so unemployment has not fallen far enough. the light bulb has to go off. what progress is the job council making when creating more jobs? >> it's not made much progress and are we surprised that the president has not met with his jobs council in one year? this administration has been about political gesture, political manipulation, blame games, but what has really been done? kelly, remember in 2009 he appointed like 32 czar. we had an economic czar, a stimulus accountability czar, an interview czar. it's been about political gestures, but not actually solutions, but my question is, where is the public outrage? >> the public outrage, the public doesn't really understand what's going on with the jobs council, chris, weigh in on that for me. >> let'

let's talk about it with angela mcglowan. she is a fox news political analyst.hat did the speaker do here? he incited the ire of many even within his own conference by shelving that bill until the new conference, the new congress comes in. >> when you have 2010 election where tea parties took over congress, rather, dealing with dividing the party, they voted not to use earmarks. so on the bill on hurricane sandy you had members of congress putting things on this bill, jon, that didn't belong, poor boehner, darned in you do, darned if you don't, was trying to adhere to the party pushing the vote but instead he split the party with peter king and also with christie. you have tea partiers upset with him, dealing with the fact that he voted for obama's legislation to assist with the fiscal cliff. jon: right. i read one assessment said that is part of the reason that the speaker decided to shelf the vote because his caucus had just had to vote on the fiscal cliff deal, many of them didn't like it. they got it passed, mostly with democratic support. but he didn't feel

. >> jamie: angela mcglowan is a fox news political analyst and mary anne marsh a democratic strategist, former advisor to john kerry. great to see you. >> great to see you. >> jamie: angela, now our taxes went up. anyone who opens up their paycheck knows for sure, what about spending, how critical is it at this juncture, still, that we get a hold of that? >> we have to, jamie. it's very critical at this time. listen, we can't tax our way to prosperity. so we can't spend our way to prosperity and we need to balance the budget and washington d.c. from tt left and the right, mary anne will agree with me, we have a spending problem here in washington d.c. and with the fiscal cliff, now averted, we need to stop playing politics and leaders need to lead this nation back into prosperity. we need to stop the political posturing, and i don't believe that we should have a government shutdown. but, jamie, if they don't come to some conclusion by marsh 4th at 11:59 p.m. we will have a government shutdown. >> jamie: mary anne, a lot of people would say here we go again, we're going down to the wire

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let's bring in our political panel to weigh in on this issue, angela mcglowan and maxwell, a democratic strategy. great to see you both. you know, currently president obama is on pace to become the most polarizing president yet. and his predecessor george w. bush had a 61% polarization rate and the fox news poll shows him polarizing into the second term. >> well, you know what, kelly, it's not all his fault. >> kelly: good points. >> we've had more politicians in washington put politics before policy. having said that, reagan was a great leader, bill clinton was a great leader. reagan cut deals with tip o'neill. bill clinton cut deals with newt gingrich. you have to compromise. obama is a great or atore and motivational speakers and he's he not been a great leader, but takes republicans coming to the table as well. >> kelly: well, why is it, why does this kind of problem exist for the president who wanted to become the unifier in chief and yet, in many ways he's perceived as the divider in chief. well, i think, you have to look at how republicans have treated the president since he's be

angela mcglowan, analyst, and julie, a former political advisor to senator lautenberg of new jersey join me now. >> great to see you. >> jamie: julie, i want to ask you, the president has been pretty upfront, and you're a democrat, talking about gun control and immigration, and the debt ceiling, which he may and is getting support from other democrats to act on unilaterally. but not a lot of mention in these couple of weeks we've just been through about jobs and folks are, i'm sure you would agree, worried about their futures. what is his jobs plan specifically? >> well, absolutely. look, there's a couple of issues here, number one, he did have a very aggressive jobs plan that the republican senate and house actually killed last year, they wouldn't take it up, wouldn't, filibustered it. and so you can only do something with a partner with which to do it. and the larger problem, a partisan issue, the problem of moving crisis to crisis. first the fiscal cliff, the debt ceiling, the sequester coming up and no long-term planning on issues that really affect the american public. >> jamie: jul

angela mcglowan, fox news political analyst. she joins us to talk now about that. political question for you, if you look at reaction in the press to this, ruth mash discuss writes in the "washington post." all those white guys. what a shame. not an outrage. it is "mad men" goes to washington. a few weeks ago we were having this conversation as some were levying the criticism on the republican party, specifically mitt romney as "mad men". is it the same political problem potentially for the president as it might be for the republicans? >> no. this is not a political problem for the president. unless the liberal side of the party brings it to the attention of all diverse groups. i want to know where is the black caucus on this? where is the women's caucus on this? where is the latino caucus on this? if you remember, jenna, the problems with susan rice when there was a lot of controversy when it was rumored she would be the next secretary of state? you had a bunch of women's groups that came out against republicans saying that they didn't want her to be secretary of s