26 January 2010

further, second, take

It sounds like a bunch of pundits looked at Obama "campaign version" being opposed to spending freezes and hatchet politics and Obama "Presidential version" calling for a spending freeze. But it looks like the spending freeze he's actually calling for is essentially the same as what he called for back in the campaign: a targeted freeze that caps the spending and then moves it around from wasteful things (whatever those are) to better more productive things (whatever those are). It remains to be seen what he plans to move it around with since he never got into those details during the campaign and there are many possible ways to move money around that would be unproductive, both for the state of economy and politically for Obama and others. We may get a glimpse of this tomorrow night.

But I doubt it.

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