europe provides -- with all due respect to his toestonia, i kno some of the things said about ben bernankee was anothee r engineering the policy and sarah palin, completely wrong. but there is kind of a partisan dynamic that's baked in here. i think back with some amusement to the clinton years when clinton passed his economic program in 1993. republicans predicted the economy would just completely collapse. it was going to be economic armageddon. and as you recall they had this economic boom and they said that was bought of the dot-com explosion and productivity changes. so, you know, you kind of can't whip in this partisan situation and i think republicans are too committed to the idea that the economy can't be good. >> it is, but the old line -- you're younger than me. the old line -- joy, you may not have heard this one either. if you want to live like a republican, vote like a democrat. it's not true that people have a better life. marsha back bulackburn was aske tom russert. >> the economy is up, unemployment went down 7.7%. do you think president obama deserved some credit? >> i hav