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If president obama is strengthened politically by his actions in libya, then i think it gives him clearly a better hand to work with in terms of dealing with the budget crisis, the jobs crisis with the congress. on the other hand if he is seen as weakened then republicans will ask for more. they re going to really go independently and i think it puts the president in much weaker hand. again, i keep going back to this. in two weeks we have got to pass a budget or the government shuts down, and then we have to pass a 2012 budget which starts in april. so there s a lot of budget business to get done in the months ahead. candy, ben, stephen, thanks very much for all this, and, of course, we look forward to candy on state of the union. high oil prices could be more than costing you cash at the gas pump, they could actually cost this country hundreds of thousands of jobs. i ll tell you how after this break. basic. preferred. at meineke i have options on oil changes. and now i get free ....