When Obama last held a big news conference, there had not yet been terrorist attacks at Fort Hood, Detroit, and Times Square. Scott Brown was an unknown Massachusetts state senator. There was no national health care bill, much less national health care law. Tiger Woods appeared to be a model family man.
The White House proposal would allow Obama and future presidents to scour spending bills for wasteful earmarks and other expenditures and then send Congress a package of cuts that lawmakers would have to either accept or reject by an up-or-down vote.
Meanwhile, neither the House nor Senate has plans to take up a budget resolution before the government's fiscal year ends in September.
Al Qaeda's robust terror organization in Yemen is recruiting from a pool of hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees who have fled war in their homeland, according to U.S. and Yemeni intelligence officials.
After dodging questions for months about whether Rep. Joe Sestak was offered a job to drop his Pennsylvania Senate primary bid, the White House has finally firmed up its response strategy.
The closest precedent to the situation in Hawaii 1 today was the 1986 race for the same seat, which featured both a special election and a divisive Democratic primary and resulted in a Republican victory in November. That divisiveness presumably contributed to the poor showing of Democratic nominee Mufi Hannemann in November. That looks like a good omen for Charles Djou.
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