george bush was around 7.5%. bill clin top was around 7.5%. obama still has -- >> bob: the misery index only goes to -- >> eric: it's 160. >> bob: obama in 2007? >> eric: no. prior to obama. >> bob: so the last years of the bush administration and first of the obama administration, right? >> eric: hmm-mm. >> dana: we are talking about housing. the elephant in the room. the theory to let it go. president bush before him came up with programs to help the homeowners and help him hold on longer. so forget wall street. people in their homes that don't have government jobs don't feel fine so their misery income is up. the household income is down. they aren't using money to go on a luxury vacation, perhaps that is good but a ways to go to get to the bottom. >> andrea: the stimulus was supposed to make the wildest dreams come true, right? checks and everyone was supposed to have the goodies from the stimulus. it didn't happen. >> greg: speaking of spin. obama treats the economy like i treat my new shirt. i put it in the -- i always put it in the wron

>> greg: everybody has a prosthetic head of george bush under their head. i do. >> bob: i have prosthetic heads of you. >> greg: people who watch the show, this is actually a fairly boring show. >> bob: which show? >> greg: "game of thrones." the head was supporter of ned stark, hero of the show and the person who beheaded him was king jaffrey who is a jerk. so in a weird way people trying to mock george bush actually saluted him. >> dana: put the shoe on the other foot or head on the other body. if it had been president obama can you imagine what we would all be hearing now? hbo wouldn't just be apologizing. >> andrea: if anyone threaten the president the secret service show up. >> dana: but president bush lets this roll off his back. he'll roll his eyes about it. >> andrea: accept it's a prosthetic head. he doesn't have a back. >> eric: did this guy look like bush? the actor? >> greg: ned stark? no. i think it was sean beam. >> eric: had long hair and -- >> greg: supporter. all right. the real crime -- >> bob: culture is going on. and none of the rest of

george h.w. bush. affectionnately known as 41. he turned 88 yesterday. then tomorrow night, a very special documentary is airing on hbo called "41." he was the 41st president. this is a great week to remember a president that everybody is so fond of, right, bob? >> bob: i have had an occasion to be with him in the oval office three times. one of the great gentlemen of all time. i'm not trying to be partisan, but a lot of people, democrat and republicans can take a lead from this guy on how to be more nonpartisan, because he is the kind of guy to do that sort of thing. we went there and sent down to el salvador monitoring the election. tremendous pictures of people chopped with ma che tees. he sat there and looked at it calmly. everyone else about threw up. it occurred to me this guy was shot out of the sky and landed in the ocean. so, mahete may be ugly but to him not big of a deal. >> dana: at 18 years old he became one of the nation's youngest fighter pilots and was shot down in the pacific and rescued. some people don't know that about him or he went

bush. now that's something, at three years down the road or going into the fourth year is something i was surprised to see would last that long. >> news flash, george bush is not on the ballot. and in that same poll romney's like ability did go up. >> from 33 to 38, right? >> a little bit -- some stuff from yesterday. but first, bob, number one, no president has in fact been elected with higher than 7.4% unemployment. that's number one. number two, stimulus checks went out, $852 billion were spent. if you want to take dollars per job, dana is right, your numbers are wrong. and what's the third one? >> we didn't do the dollars per job. this came out yesterday. it was -- it's somewhere, depending on how they average it out, but regardless of the jocks that were created under the stimulus, it was either $540,000 to $4.1 million cost per job so actually you could have cut and sent checks. >> why didn't you? >> all those employed for that amount of money and had the same impact. >> could we reme

george bush tax cuts didn't bankrupt us. >> kimberly: something positive. they did do a lot in tomorrows of organizing the workforce and getting benefits for employees but there comes a time when the pendulum swings and we need to focus on fiscal responsen't and putting money in hands of the hardworking people. >> bob: then let bush tax cuts expire. coming up, you hear a lot of stories in the media about the kids bullying classmates. >> kimberly: when we come back, we show you a heart warming video of great school kids that rally around one of the classmates with cerebral palsy. don't miss it. bob will be in a better mood. >> bob: i'm in a great move! ♪ ♪ madison, wisconsin, starts at 6:00 eastern. i know beak to new york and my colleagues with "the five." ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back to "the five." you have probably seen stories about bullying in the media lately. some people are frustrated with the loss of enforcement for anti-bullying laws and they take it in their own hands. one florida mom was arrested after allegedly choking a 14-year-old boy s

i don't remember them pondering the pain of politics when they pummeled george bush. media is scared. [ inaudible ] never mind dismal job numbers, the horrible economy and glum mood of the uneasy nation. you're a bully if you bring it up. circle the wagon. the hero's self-esteem at risk. does shielding someone from reality do them favors? if you worry obama can't handle bloggers why do you think he will do fine with putin? who cares. for the media, obama deserves gold stars on the refrigerator paintings and to suggest otherwise would be like punching a kitten. only dana would do the before devouring it with her bare tiny hands. >> dana: i love getting gold starts on my chart. i love it so much. i do all my chores and responsibilities and i would get different color -- >> greg: i don't think it affected you as an doesn't. not at all, america. >> dana: can i get one on my office door. >> greg: is it harder these days, andrea? >> andrea: it's harder if you assume that the people are listening. if they are following every tiny blog. i think it's a beltway mentality, beltw

. >> bob: george bush not have a stack of cards in his desk? do we talk about that? ace of spades is gone? >> kimberly: i want greg back in and listen to this from brit hume and greg's reaction. >> every chance that the people would think that the republicans were pestering this, this nice man, eric holder, the first african-american attorney general. on the other hand, the public might smell a rat and wonder why the material hasn't been turned over thinking this is a terrible case, one they might not have paid much attention to, but as it heats up they will and come out and make the administration look very bad. >> kimberly: what do you think? being politically astute saying it could backfire on republicans? >> greg: here is the risk for g.o.p. it can be risky for one reason. once the media realizes it's bad for the republicans, then they will jump on this story. for example, if you look at abc yesterday, they treated it like it was the new story, like michael jackson had suddenly died. it had been going on for a long time. they led the newscast off with the weather

george bush tax cuts didn't bankrupt us. >> kimberly: something positive. they did do a lot in tomorrows of organizing the workforce and getting benefits for employees but there comes a time when the pendulum swings and we need to focus on fiscal responsen't and putting money in hands of the hardworking people. >> bob: then let bush tax cuts expire. coming up, you hear a lot of stories in the media about the kids bullying classmates. >> kimberly: when we come back, we show you a heart warming video of great school kids that rally around one of the classmates with cerebral palsy. don't miss it. bob will be in a better mood. >> bob: i'm in a great move! ♪ ♪ and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness... man: great job. where your price won't increase due to your first accident. we also offer a hassle-free lifetime repair guarantee, where the repairs made on your car are guaranteed for life or they're on us. these are just two of the valuable features you can expect from liberty mutual. plus, when you insure

george bush wanted people with an opportunity to be on food stamps who weren't using it. they did that in the bush administration. obama administration increased eligibility. no question about that. if people are not using things that is food on your table, if there is anything you want to put advertising on, it seems it's about that. >> andrea: that begs the question why wouldn't the administration do ads like this about medicaid? there are 38 million people eligible for medicaid. >> bob: they do. all the time. >> andrea: rather than obamacare and a huge push, why not do it piecemeal. portability. try to get people on the rolls. >> greg: it's an ad for free stuff. easy ad. easy sell. they are using mechanism used for the private enterprise to give away stuff we actually pay for. >> dana: medicare part "d." to solder people find out and take advantage of it. that's how we get the word out. >> andrea: run in pennsylvania through june 30 with our money. pennsylvania. >> bob: our money. our money. >> eric: what happens is here is the poverty level. people well above the pove

of the media if it happened under george bush. oliver stone would be directing the movie already and martin sheen would be the father of brian terry and carrot top would be eric holder. media would see this as a huge thing. but because it's obama people spend more time wondering if this is a story. maybe it's politically motivated but it is also a real scandal. you can have both. >> bob: one thing that eric said before. the fact that the democrats walked out is not historic. bush, when they brought up bolton under contempt charges and meyers around contempt charges, boehner led virtually all the republicans out of the chamber. >> greg: but should you walk out if somebody died? isn't that disrespectful? >> bob: that is one salient argument. you have a dead border agent. i understand that. do the republicans want to be seen as playing politics? that's how they'll be seen. >> eric: it's not politics. >> bob: it will be played that way. >> eric: by you. by the left. >> bob: by the obama campaign. >> eric: right. by the left. >> bob: t

in the same blog, she says that george bush was president for ten years and describes a tea party who elected dozens of politician as the lunatic fringe. this is from a self-described anarchist, ailing from england where the media is as balanced as their teeth. how much you want to bet she sees wall street as fine, to adult like her protesting against democracy peacefully is scarier than planning to blow up bridges. newsroom is losers' lament, harkening back to a time when the left ran everything. no wonder they hate fox news, which means they hate you. non-coastal types who don't own prius, held together by bumper stickers. hbo hates you. you should accept the hate proudly. you earned it, because you're right and the show sucks. oh! that's all i have to say about that. what do you want to talk about? >> andrea: so you really liked it. >> greg: this was like a time machine that went back to fight old battles they lost. or something. >> andrea: with "days of our lives" on top. drama! if you have ever seen a newsroom in action, no one is stopping to give these bold speeches, these self-

>> dana: george h.w. bush who had a birthday and the film on hbo aired last night. one of my favorite clips from it, he talked about how he was raised and how he conducted himself. >> set an example. had truisms that kept me in good stead even when i was the president of the united states. she said don't brag about yourself all the time. i said listen, don't talk all the time. give the other guy credit. she set a great example for all of us. if we got hurt, she would be there to lift us up, brush us off. >> dana: hopefully you saw it last night. i understand it will air again. >> bob: i watched it. i had a project last night. wonderful. captured the man. but his mother who he talked about, i was in florida playing golf. i had to buy something. at a little store there, you know, ritzsy fancy place. i almost ran over a lady in a wheelchair and that's who it was. >> eric: president bush's mother in a wheelchair in your golf cart. >> bob: yes. listen, i wish more republicans on capitol hill would pay attention to this man and be a serious politician with a heart. >> dan

even george w. bush mentioned they burned down the white house. >> andrea: so did bob beckel yesterday on "the five." i'm happy we broke away from them. i wouldn't want to be english at all. >> kimberly: bob is taking moment after yesterday. >> eric: would camilla become queen? >> kimberly: that is the problem. charles divorced. if you saw the pictures and the footage queen looks fantastic. it doesn't look like she is in poor health. no report she is suffering -- >> andrea: give it to william. >> kimberly: skip over charles? >> andrea: that is the debate. is debate is she going to give it to him for a short period of time and then like -- she will live for a while. or is she going to skip over him? gregg i don't care about that. i don't care. i am interested in the weighing. like a celebration of waving. sporting event without the sport. >> kimberly: you like the civility. they call it the royal wave. people practice it all the time. >> andrea: you like to have fun. >> greg: i do. >> kimberly: let m

history, which may be followed up with the second largest tax increase in american history when the bush tax cuts expire? >> right. so the president, who said during the entire debate on healthcare that this is not a tax went on abc news, george stephanopoulos, and it's not a tax, i'm sick of people calling it a tax, it is not a tax, he said, and then he has his lawyer, this and this is what is important, the solicitor general goes up to the supreme court of the united states and argues it's a tax. reluctantly because they didn't want to say it was a tax but that's exactly what the chief justice and four other justices found were we now have the greatest tax increase on the middle class and at the same time we are going to destroy the healthcare system in the united states. what romney said was correct. the supreme court did not say this is good law. they did not say it is good policy. in fact the chief justice makes a statement toward the end of that opinion that it is not his job to protect citizens from elected officials that enact policies likes that. that's the job of the citizens o