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impact of the ballooning national debt are time magazine deputy bureau chief michael crowley, cornell belchercan strategist rob johnson. thanks for being with us. first of all, romney hit the president also on the stimulus. he called it, quote, the biggest, most careless one-time expenditure from the federal government in history. before we get to that i want to point out that joe stiglitz, a prize winning economist, said the stimulus wasn't big enough. he said, we will see in the next two year it is real cost of there not being a second round of stimulus. we will see the economy slow down at a very high economic cost. rob, as a republican will you acknowledge at least there is a debate to be had about whether or not government spending is wise? >> no. i will not. i will admit there is a debate going on, but i don't think we should be having this debay. i agree with governor romney. he did a great job laying out the plan and the problems we have. >> is this an issue that democrats can win on or do they have to just agree the spending is too much and has to be spent down? >> well, first of all

i talked to cornell belcher and alex cast ya knows. >> even if this ad campaign never happens, do you this by some super pac out there? and do you think they could be effective? >> well, two things. one is i think the last thing republicans want is for some millionaire nut job spending millions and millions of dollars taking the nominee off message. if you're the republican nominee, it's basic politics. you want to be talking about the economy and yobs and trying to contrast yourself with the president on this. to get on these issues and have the nominee talk about issues that don't create a job or keep anyone in their house, it doesn't help with unemployment or mortgages, that's a nightmare for republicans. >> clearly someone on the republican side thinks this is a good idea. they came up with the idea. it's been rejected by the romney campaign. why do you think these ideas are still floating out there? >> it's not a sufficiently good idea that it got any money. why? because i think there are people on both ends of the political spectrum. perhaps some rich and not capable folks who m