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Amy Walter:

Well, you are exactly right, Judy. It's a marked change from the last four years.

But what I found really interesting too is, this the way that the Biden administration is selling the COVID package is as much a response to 2009 as it was to 2020. And that is that there are a lot of folks, including, obviously, the president himself, who were there for the last big rescue package.

And at that time now, looking back, Democrats say, we didn't go big enough. We went for $813 billion. We should have gone bigger, because that was not enough of an economic stimulus to bring the economy back. It was a much slower recovery. We're not going to make that mistake again.

But, this time, Joe Biden has something that Barack Obama didn't. He obviously has fewer Democrats in the Senate, but the Democrats are much more ideologically homogeneous. There are fewer conservative Democrats, moderate Democrats, especially fiscally conservative Democrats.

And so they could go for a bigger package. And the second thing that they look back on in 2009 and wish they had done differently, which was selling it. That is to Tam's point, to go out there and brag all the time, every day. They feel that they didn't do that well enough in 2010, never really embraced the economy and its comeback.

And it put then-President Obama on a back foot for much of his tenure, even going into the 2012 selection.

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