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Exactly stellar. you had bad jobs report that added to it. then obviously the wisconsin result. here is how the associated press said the economic arro arrows in the quiver still for the president. what remains. big ticket items like payroll tax cut, free frayed agreement. months of benefit and stimulus spending on public work and aid to local government tried but sailed to spur sustained, robust recovery. to-do list, the a.p. writes, doesn t look like it can move the ball. the problem is the stimulus is over. it hasn t done the trick. it s also finishing. in other words, now there is a contractionnary thing as the public sector jobs are taken and salaries are taken from the economy. i don t think the president has a lot of economic arrows left. he is dependent on events outside his control. what happens in europe. he is not the master of his own state. yes, the last couple of weeks have been good ones for ....
Backing away from what he thoot they wanted in the first place, referring to this conrad gregg fiscal commission idea. we were sure there was going to be bipart san, only to see seven republicans who co-sponsored the idea in the first place, suddenly decide to vote against it. i m opening to honest differences of opinion, but what i m not open to is changing positions because of short-term politics. what about the seven republicans that wanted the president to create this commission that would have some real teeth. the last minute she switched and voted the other way. it wasn t at the last minute that followed the explosive expansion of government and the debt. it would have included tax increases, even as ms. frommer says, you can t raise taxes in a recession, it s contractionnary. ....