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Obama Will Use State of the Union to Call for Five-Year Freeze on Non-Security Discretionary Spending - FoxNews.com
However...
PolitiFact | Obama criticized McCain on a spending freeze
I anxiously await the liberals who were horrified by an across the board freeze, to show their horror now.
cricket... cricket...cricket.
President Obama will call for a five-year freeze on non-security discretionary spending during his State of the Union address to Congress late Tuesday, a White House official told Fox News.
However...
PolitiFact | Obama criticized McCain on a spending freeze
Obama's Republican opponent in the election, Sen. John McCain, supported a spending freeze. In fact, what he proposed sounds an awful lot like the one Obama is suggesting...
We reviewed the transcripts of the three presidential debates and found McCain and Obama jousted over a spending freeze each time...
In the first debate... Obama replied, "The problem with a spending freeze is you're using a hatchet where you need a scalpel...
In the second debate... Obama, on the other hand, said it was important "for the president to set a tone that says all of us are going to contribute, all of us are going to make sacrifices, and it means that, yes, we may have to cut some spending, although I disagree with Sen. McCain about an across-the-board freeze. That's an example of an unfair burden-sharing. That's using a hatchet to cut the federal budget."...
Finally, the third debate... Obama: "Well, look, I think that we do have a disagreement about an across-the-board spending freeze. It sounds good. It's proposed periodically. It doesn't happen. And, in fact, an across-the-board spending freeze is a hatchet, and we do need a scalpel, because there are some programs that don't work at all..."
Obama's answers, on the other hand, never gave any indication that he would embrace the idea of a spending freeze, something that he is doing now.
So we don't find Bernstein's explanation convincing.
We give Obama a Full Flop.
I anxiously await the liberals who were horrified by an across the board freeze, to show their horror now.
cricket... cricket...cricket.