i disagree with e.j. again.'ll half agree at some point with you to be a good colleague on the set but people know what obama is about. they know what the program is. they know he's growing government because he thinks that's good for the economy and the country's future. the problem is three fold. they had a mandate from heaven to do what they want bed but th were getting an opportunity because they were recoiling from the republicans and the economy and then there was opportunism, a crisis -- never let a crisis go to waste. do health care. do cap and trade. things that have nothing to do with the economy or may actually be harmful to it and there's the fact that the program has not worked on its own terms. the stimulus has not worked. you add all three of those things up and you have a grim picture and another huge problem, independent are much closer to the tea partiers on the big issues and even on the smaller hot button ones. spending, debt, ground zero mosque, all of that. >> the big question on unemployme

e.j., what is this capability? the public to understand, it's a worm that would be like if you went to your car and somebody put a piece of code into your car and anytime they wanted to mess with your fuel system, your radio, your brakes, it would shut it off. you take that and move it up to a nuclear power plant and now it goes in and it will turn off the lubrication for the reactor or the containment facility, anything of that nature, without the businesses really knowing what's going on or the people behind the keyboards. >> in this case, the nuclear facility in iran, that appears to be what happened. that nuclear facility is not on the dwrid. it's a free standing facility. how is it that an outside government or group of any kind could instahl a worm that does what you're describing? >> that's the key here is the vector of the attack. any worm that goes out there for any purpose, be it to steal financial data or shut down a some of this nature, you've got to get it in there. it's been reported that this was put

liberals, like e.j., loved the filibuster when republicans were in charge of the senate.ve been railing against the filibuster as a threat to democracy for the past two years. you watch if republicans take over the senate in january, they will go back to loving the filibuster again and saying so without the slightest hint of irony in their voices. >> it's strange. i think the congressional leadership worked for the democrats, it's the white house that didn't work for the democrats. now, the whole thing is becoming unraveled. you have never seen such a drop, for as large, in terms of support, as large and as quick as happened for the executive branch, not so much for the congress. >> they really have to g get -- they need to get people there in. they have a good group of people in the white house but they need an old washington hand that knows how it works. they don't have that in the white house right now. it would be like starting a wall street firm with a bunch of people that, you know, worked commodities in chicago and now they were trying to do derivatives on wall str

e.j. is joining us. good morning. caller: i would like to start by saying that i think barack obama is a great corridor and give it some good speeches but as far as -- orator gives great speeches, but as far as administrator he is an aristocrat, it is his way or the highway. we need republicans in their to insist on checks and balances. host: from "the new york daily news." signing some of his critics treat him like a dog. and mitch mcconnell from kentucky sang the president's plan should be met with justifiable skepticism because it would raise taxes. here is more from the president yesterday in a milwaukee. >> but there are some folks in washington who see things differently. you know what i am talking about. when it comes to just about everything we have done to strengthen our middle-class and rebuild our economy, almost every republican in congress says no. even on things we'd usually agree on, they say no. if i said at the sky was blue, they would say no. if i said fish and lived in the dusty, they would say no -

e.j. is joining us. good morning. caller: i would like to >> we will now go live to the brookings institute. it is on the military modernization of ndf. -- of india. this is live coverage just getting under way. >> the topic is peace, not just in south asia, but in asia as a whole. also it is important because of the extraordinary experience and expertise of the two authors. the two panelists are cruise on south asia. the brookings institution's -- the two panelists are experts on south asia. it is officially been published by the brookings institution press this week. there will be a paperback edition published by anglin in november. this book is come in some ways, a follow to steve's earlier book, "india the emerging power" which is published in 2001. in the intervening nine years, india, of course, has grown in prosperity, grown in the economic and, i would say, it deal-political clout. -- geopolitical clout. during that same time, since 2001, the neighborhood in which india plays such an informal rule, the neighbo

e.j. is joining us. good morning. caller: i would like to start by saying that i think barack obama is a great corridor and give it some good speeches but as far as -- orator gives great speeches, but as far as administrator he is an aristocrat, it is his way or the highway. we need republicans in their to insist on checks and balances. host: from "the new york daily news." signing some of his critics treat him like a dog. and mitch mcconnell from kentucky sang the president's plan should be met with justifiable skepticism because it would raise taxes. here is more from the president yesterday in a milwaukee. >> but there are some folks in washington who see things differently. you know what i am talking about. when it comes to just about everything we have done to strengthen our middle-class and rebuild our economy, almost every republican in congress says no. even on things we'd usually agree on, they say no. if i said at the sky was blue, they would say no. if i said fish and lived in the dusty, they would say no -