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ANCHOR CHRISTY LEWIS

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This Sunday-- political shows revolved around the economy and the GOP presidential candidates for 2012.
White House Advisor David Plouffe appeared on several shows to talk about President Obama’s plan to jump start the economy.

He tells CNN’s Candy Crowley Congress will have to answer to their constituents if they don’t act fast.

“So the question really for folks in Congress is do they want to go back at the end of the year and report back to their constituents that they didn’t really do anything to help the economy, create jobs, help the middle class?  When we think at the end of the day, there’s going to be some action here we think it needs to be the American Jobs act is aimed squarely at providing the jump-start the economy needs right now.”

And Plouffe tells ABC’s “This Week,” he believes the President’s jobs plan is passable.

“I think it’s got a very good chance.  This has tax cuts for every small business and every worker, rehiring teachers, modernizing our schools, helping rebuild our infrastructure -- all things that can help the economy in the short term, and are important for our long-term economic future and they traditionally have had bipartisan support.”

Congress is facing yet another possible shutdown, the third this year.
Democratic Virginia Senator Mark Warner says he’s ashamed by the repeat performance.

“Yes, it is embarrassing. Can we once again inflict on the country and the American people the spectacle of a near government shutdown?  I sure as heck hope not.  … The Senate is saying, 'Why should we build schools in Iraq on the credit card but expect that rebuilding schools in Joplin, Mo., at this moment in time have to be paid for in a way that's never been in any of the previous disaster assistance that we've put out before.”

Warner blamed the tea party crowd for the stall, but Republican Senator Lamar Alexander has someone else to blame.

“I’ll give the Senate Democratic leader most of the credit. He manufactured a crisis all week about disaster aid when there is no crisis. Everybody knows we're going to for every single penny of disaster aid that the president declares and that FEMA certifies.  The House settled for a bill that does that and the Senate should have approved it.”

Another popular topic this week was the current GOP field for a presidential candidate.  Republican Senator Lindsey Graham says the GOP’s best bet at winning is actually the president.

“The best thing we got going for us is Obama policies that won’t work and are never going to work and he seems to be unwilling to change.  It is our race to lose.  We need to make sure we produce a candidate who can beat President Obama.”

Fox News commentator Brit Hume says frontrunner Texas Governor Rick Perry stumbled in the debate this week and might be on his way out.

Fox News commentator Brit Hume:“Perry really did throw up all over himself in the debate, at a time when he needed to raise his game. He did worse it seems to me than in previous debates. ... Perry is one-half a step away from almost total collapse as a candidate”

Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels disagrees, saying we shouldn’t write Perry off just yet.

“It's way too early to know or to issue, to pronounce last rites over one performance.  There's still many of these (debates), too many maybe. ... I'd cut him some slack and give him a little time. … It's very encouraging, by the way, to hear a guy like Sen. Warner speak to it as clearly as he just did.  I wish he were president.”

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg says he’s not picking a favorite.

Gregory:  “Will you endorse any candidate?”
“I’ll have to see. Probably not because I’ve got to work with whoever wins.  I have an obligation to do what’s right for the city of New York and not just to go out there and express my views even if I think it’s right for the country. … I think the President is a real viable candidate and you’re going to have a real horse race here no matter who the Republican nominee is.”

In the last few days, Mitt Romney won a staw poll in Michigan and Herman Cain won a Florida straw poll.  
 

Transcript by Newsy.