joining us with some ideas, robert brusca, chief economist of fact and opinion economics. hi, bob. >> hi, susie. >> susie: so, is the president right, that it's really not the economy that's broken? it's the political system. >> i think a lots of things are broken. i think it's true that we have basicry a bad economy because you don't have a good economy in war economy. and right now we have a civil war between democrats and republicans. they're fighting battles with partisan agendas and the nation, i think, has been left out. it's become collateral damage. >> susie: so what should the president do? >> i think options are limited to some extent. one of the problems is that we've leaned on the fed so much and with the sports season coming, we know in football if you run the ball and run the ball and run the ball, eventually they stop that. the way you're successful is mixing your strategy. republicans are redlining any kind of fiscal policy move and i don't think we should take anything off the move. with 9% unemployment the most risky thing that could happen is not to get