lou: your heart has got to lead to hear brad blackmun citing president clinton as the source for thetrillion sitting of the side awaiting investment, real investment, not just spending and the part of corporate america. >> i think that is there. i think that is on the sideline. i think the president and democrats -- we believe that the economy is starting to move, not fast enough, but the other point, the president is going to say in his speech tonight that not one of his proposals is going to add a dime of spending, that there is going to be an offset for everything that he talks about and it will be paid for and we have to take the steps to move the country forward. the republicans that will be in the position of saying, no, or compromising in going with the president. i think it's going to have consequences in 2014. lou: when i hear republicans saying is in no. i hear them saying, held no. >> el know it is, and here is the reason. sequestration is hanging over our heads. the president's sequestration, not the house of the senate. this was his way of trying to influence republicans