, to lead the nation. celebrities. >> eric: who won the week? >> 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 a

. president obama exceeds 12%. 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 wrong cycl

worthwhile. >> bob: good point. give him credit for this. 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 th

: really? 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 me tell you something quickly. i do have personal experience with the royal fam

uninformed we yankees are. 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

parker. i can't believe any woman would vote for president george w. bush. look who won? sjp does not speak for me. >> bob: she doesn't. >> greg: you own all the dvds of "sex in the city." >> kimberly: he cries during that. >> bob: the idea of putting on a british person to ask for -- because we whooped them once. in 1812 we whooped them a second time. >> greg: he is right. the problem with the economy, everybody is hurting. elitist remote woman who looks down on everything. >> bob: i love being on with you right now. >> eric: the show, michelle obama is e-mailing me. >> kimberly: you scared her at the white house dinner. >> eric: we want you and come to sarah jessica parker's house. can i just -- >> kimberly: sjp is a nice lady and very generous. >> eric: but she's not politically astute. she had a chance to take a shot at sarah palin once and she said it's not right. may or may not like her for a politician but don't take a shot at her. i like sarah jessica parker. she can support obama, who cares. >> kimberly: my nanny works for her sometimes. >> greg: well, in that case. i change

this stuff now? 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, beltway wri

republican. george bush handed off $1.3 trillion deficit to obama in 2009, just because the 2009 budget presented by bush administration. obama raised it by another, with a stimulus, $800 billion. but the idea that $300 billion is just absolutely made up. >> eric: you know what? put the full screen back up, please, producers. put a full screen back up. that includes every single dollar. it's pro-rated. we took the month, the january, we gave to president bush. when it was his. we gave it to president obama when it was his. >> bob: i am talking about the 2009 -- >> eric: that is in there. 2009, 2010, 2011. >> eric: i don't do as many billboards as you do. >> andrea: what bob is not explaining is it's an accounting boy, what the president is doing. he passed the second half of tarp. he saved the economy, how? one thing was tarp. but he kept accounting levels the same as 2009. he kept those bush levels. but he doesn't want to omit that. we're not supposed to say the president lies. oh boy, that will light up the blogs so i'll say he is misrepresenting the truth there. you go. >> eric: this

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: there you go. it's going to be played that way. you don't have a lot

would know about a program at large that was being done. >> 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.

thrones." recently they featured george w. bush's head on a stake. they issued an apology. it's clearly him but his hair is envious. something of envy. >> dana: someone didn't call the barber. >> andrea: so they issued a statement and apologized profusely. i wonder if secret service will pay producers a visit, bob. the producers support democratic causes. >> bob: i knew there had to be a point to the story. the guy that put the mask together was probably also a democrat, contributor to obama. that is the dumbest thing. how anybody says, they apologize for. that c'mon. somebody who didn't like bush decided it would be cool. who did he think he'd get away with? >> 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 salut

inherited a terrible one from george 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 remember the $255 million of tim will you was tax cuts for small