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Barack Obama's budget: Wishful, and dangerous, thinking (Economist)

  • The president has not explained to Americans that if they want bigger government, they will have to pay for it
  • The president has not explained to Americans that if they want bigger government, they will have to pay for it

They've taken his measure (Brothers Judd)

  • Mr. Obama had too little executive experience for anyone to expect he'd be a strong leader, but few anticipated he'd prove this weak this fast. There's a distinct whiff of the Peanut Farmer emanating from the Oval.
  • Mr. Obama had too little executive experience for anyone to expect he'd be a strong leader, but few anticipated he'd prove this weak this fast. There's a distinct whiff of the Peanut Farmer emanating from the Oval.

President Obama's Double Talk (Robert Samuelson, WaPo)

  • Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he is doing things that he isn't, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made "responsibility" a personal theme; the budget's cover line is "A New Era of Responsibility." He says the budget begins "making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline." It doesn't.
  • Obama is a great pretender. He repeatedly says he is doing things that he isn't, trusting his powerful rhetoric to obscure the difference. He has made "responsibility" a personal theme; the budget's cover line is "A New Era of Responsibility." He says the budget begins "making the tough choices necessary to restore fiscal discipline." It doesn't.

Geithner, With Few Aides, Faces a Wave of Challenges (Edmund Andrews & Stephen Labaton, NY Times)

Far from being a great transition (as advertised by the administration and media), it seems this bunch of people who have never run anything were true to form and still don't have a proper team in place.

www.nytimes.com/...09treasury.html - Preview

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