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Obama Defends Geithner -- Says He Would Not Accept A Resignation
In an interview with CBS, President Obama stood by Tim Geithner's performance as Treasury Secretary, joking that he would not accept a resignation even if it were ever offered: "Sorry, Buddy, you've still got the job."

Biden Economic Adviser: Bonus Tax May Have "Gone Too Far"
Jared Bernstein, the top economic adviser to Vice President Biden, told ABC's This Week that the bonus tax bill from the House may have "gone too far," and that there are serious concerns about its constitutionality. "That said, let's see what comes out of the Senate," said Bernstein. "He [President Obama] has not said he won't sign this bill. Let's see what comes out of the Senate. Let's see what gets to his desk."

No Obama Or Biden Events Today
President Obama and Vice President Biden do not have any public events scheduled for today.

Shelby: Geithner "Won't Last Long" If He Keeps Going Down This Road
Appearing on Fox News Sunday, Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) expressed his lack of confidence in Geithner, though he stopped just short of calling for a resignation. "Well, I said last week he works for the president, and I can tell you what, if he keeps going down this road, I think that he won't last long," said Shelby. "I think he's probably on shaky grounds now, at least with the Congress and a lot of the American people."

Conrad To Present Budget Plan
Appearing on ABC's This Week, Senate Budget Committee Chairman Kent Conrad (D-ND) said he will be presenting his own budget plan, to address President Obama's policy priorities without as much of a strain on the deficit: "It acknowledges in the short term, yes, we have got to have added deficits and debt to give lift to this economy, but longer term, we have got to pivot."

Schwarzenegger, Rendell, Bloomberg Back Infrastructure Spending
Appearing on Meet The Press, Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger (R-CA) and Ed Rendell (D-PA), plus New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (I), all said the country needs to spend $1.6 trillion on infrastructure to get the economy working. Schwarzenegger said: "In order for the economy to thrive and live up to 100 percent of its potential, you need to move people and goods around very quickly, and so if that falls behind then the economy falls behind."

Gregg: Obama Budget Will Bankrupt The Country
Appearing on CNN's State of the Union, Sen. Judd Gregg said that President Obama's budget plan would bankrupt the country. "There's no other way around it," said Gregg. "If we maintain the proposals that are in this budget over the ten-year period that this budget covers, this country will go bankrupt. People will not buy our debt, our dollar will become devalued. It is a very severe situation."

Wasserman Schultz Reveals Battle With Cancer
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) has revealed that she has secretly fought breast cancer for the past year, undergoing seven major surgeries even as she worked in Congress. "I'm a very focused, methodical person, and I wasn't going to let this beat me," said Wasserman Schultz. "I wasn't going to let it interfere with my life."


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How come you don't mention the Obama administration's plan to regulate executive compensation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/politics/22regulate.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss

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said Bernstein. "He [President Obama] has not said he won't sign this bill. Let's see what comes out of the Senate. Let's see what gets to his desk."

Having listened to Obama for so long, his released statement a couple of days ago makes it clear that he doesn't believe that he will be signing a 90% tax bill. He said it rightly reflects the outrage that people are feeling, but prior to that he said we should not legislate out of anger. Obama knows the Constitution and he knows the Senate, I'm almost sure that he believes the bill will be changed.

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And Bernstein is a progressive - that dirty traitor.

I'm betting that the House members who voted out of anger will soon frame the vote as 100% symbolic and that they knew it wouldn't ever become law.

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oh, of course!

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When I said the same thing as Bernstein (the liberal economist) last week, I was called a right winger. Sometimes the knee-jerk BS here substitutes for reasoned thought.

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Smart of Republicans to join the Left on the "Geithner Is Useless" bandwagon. They probably think he is a Liberal, while the Left calls him a Republican - Lite. Too funny! Yea for bipartisanship!

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Geithner is taking it from all sides, the GOP wants to bring him down because they feel it would hurt Obama's poll numbers and the progressive left want to bring him down because they think Obama would then choose one of their own and the economic rapture would ensue.

How did Sen. Gregg vote when Bush was spending billions a month in Iraq and Afghanistan while cutting taxes? Now that was an economic plan that long term viability. Obama's budget is an investment - you insulate your house and you have the upfront cost, but in 5-6 years the energy savings have paid for the insulation and from that point on going forward you're saving money every year.

I hope President Obama doesn't suffer fools on Tuesday night. I hope he vehemently points out that you can't fix an economic meltdown decades in the making on three months.

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Yeah, right. Obama doesn't need the left. The Blue Dogs have his back.

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And his budget could have just as easily been written by the blue dogs...

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It will be before it's passed...

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Well considering at least 80% of Americans don't consider themselves progressive democrats...

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Well that's pretty dumb. 80 percent of Americans don't consider themselves blue dog Democrats either. 80 percent of Americans don't consider themselves ultra-conservatives. 80 percent of Americans don't consider themselves moderate conservatives, etc, etc.

Obama's platform while he was running corresponded pretty quickly to what he is proposing in his budget. People voted for it decisively. That's called a mandate to execute your proposed policies. That's the point of a democracy.

The point of a democracy is not for the same group of peoeple (blue dogs) to have veto power over any legislation.

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But about 55-60% would be comfortable with a moderate Dem or moderate Republican agenda. Obama was elected, and he is President for all Americans, not just those who voted for him.

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Stay strong Debbie

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I dont recall this jackass Shelby ever saying "Won't Last Long" If He Keeps Going Down This Road with Donny Rumsfield

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