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To: Sully- who wrote (69411)	2/10/2009 9:22:18 AM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 90947

Krauthammer's Take NRO Staff The Corner From yesterday’s Roundtable. On the damage done to Obama by his nominees’ tax problems: <<< Look, I think what the polls are showing is that people haven't turned against him, obviously, on these relatively small mistakes. But I think you've got to measure him by a different standard in the sense that he came in as a man who was transcendent, had a charisma, and had an aura about him unlike any other figure in politics since the Kennedys, and theirs is largely posthumous. I mean, he came in with his own cult of personality unlike anything any of us have ever seen. That's what I think has fallen away. I mean, it was inevitable. To govern is to choose, and to choose is to alienate. And over time, perhaps six months or a year, that sheen, the aura, was going to come off him. But after the Daschle and the Geithner and the Killefer debacles, after the stories about the limos and the Cadillacs and all that, I think it's hurt him in a way that — it's changed the perception of him as a transcendent, different character and politician. And that, I think, is something you don't recover. >>> On how the stimulus bill will be sorted out in the conference committee: <<< In the end, it will be sorted out entirely on the matter of politics and not economics. And the politics here are that you can get anything through the House. If Pelosi wants X, it will pass. But in the Senate, you're going to have to appease the gang of three, the three Republicans who defected and joined with the Democrats on this bill. So it's going to have to be nearer what the Senate has decided on if it's going to pass. You've got to be careful. Susan Collins has wavered a bit — one of the three Republicans on this. She's going to have to be OK with it. And you've even had a few Democrats like Dianne Feinstein, who's expressed questions about the Senate version. So I think it's going to tend on the Senate side. You'll have those large — you're going to have a lot of those cuts. You're going to end up with the Alternative Minimum Tax fix, which is what the Senate had insisted upon. But in the end it's going to be, as Larry Summers had said, almost on — the overlap is huge, about 90 percent. So it's going to be a huge spending bill. >>> corner.nationalreview.com

To: Sully- who wrote (69411)	3/5/2009 10:04:03 AM
From: Peter Dierks	3 Recommendations Respond to of 90947

Presidential Bait-and-Switch What Obama once promised, and what he's delivering. MARCH 4, 2009, 11:10 P.M. ET By KARL ROVE Barack Obama won the presidency in large measure because he presented himself as a demarcation point. The old politics, he said, was based on "spin," misleading arguments, and an absence of candor. He'd "turn the page" on that style of politics. Last week's presentation of his budget shows that hope was a mirage. For example, Mr. Obama didn't run promising larger deficits -- but now is offering record-setting ones. He'll add $4.9 trillion before his term ends and $7.4 trillion if given a second, doubling the national debt in five years and tripling it in 10. Mr. Obama's deficits will be much larger than he admits because he relies on rosy economic assumptions and gimmicks that mask spending and debt (like assuming popular new programs he supports won't be renewed). Nor did Mr. Obama run promising more earmarks. Instead, he said he'd reform ... Message 25467453