Scott Spiegel

“The Obama administration on Sunday endorsed spending an additional $100 billion to attack painfully high unemployment as it prepared to send Congress a $3.8 trillion budget that would provide billions more to pull the country out of the Great Recession while increasing taxes on the wealthy and imposing a spending freeze on many government programs…

“Gibbs said it was important for Democrats and Republicans to put aside their differences to pass a bill that addresses jobs, the country’s No. 1 concern. ‘I think that would be a powerful signal to send to the American people,’ Gibbs said in an appearance on CNN’s ‘State of the Union.’”

Translation: It is important for Republicans to give in to Democrats’ wrongheaded proposals and approve everything they want to pass.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_budget

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