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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (68931)	1/28/2010 1:26:13 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

The issue here is seizing the opportunity to project the Democrats as fiscally responsible. It is not about competing with the Repubs for that image. One of the best moments for me yesterday was when Obama outlined all the instances in the past year where his Administration provided the tax cuts. The American people are smart enough to figure out that while the Repubs just keep talking about cuts and give those to the rich, the Dems led by Obama are the ones who are providing tax cuts that are meaningful. Another moment under the sun was when he expressed his determination to erase the 1 trillion deficit that he created while at the same time mentioning that there is a 8 trillion dollar deficit of the previous Administration. All I say that this is not the time for any Democart to come across like a Republican and hinder the efforts of the party and the WH to regain the imagination of the voters. I may be wrong, but the voters are in no mood to have the political parties say that they are better than the other one and that the other one failed to deliver but we did. I think Obama made that clear yesterday when he stressed that the Repubs are equally accountable. And the American people got it. Now the Dems need to show the people that they can overcome all the barriers that the Repubs are putting to impede fulfillment of what the Americans need.

To: tejek who wrote (68931)	1/28/2010 4:17:34 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

Where is the submitted budget with said freezes? Doesn't take a party to submit that budget. If Obama is serious, he goes to the Cabinet, sez give me yer next year's budget with no more $ than you got last year, takes that to Congress and sez here's the budget with no more $ than last year except SS, MC, Medicaid, give me more and I'll veto it and shut everything down. He's just posturing now. Doesn't take non-partisan committees or outside commissions. Just fucking do it.