Friday, June 8, 2012

The presser

Caught it while I was at the gym.  Initial thoughts:

The deflection of responsibility continues.  It's European instability.  It's congressional obstinancy.

He will live to regret the line "The private sector is doing just fine."

Two things about his zeal for pumping more federal dollars into municipalities: As noble as the professions of teaching, firefighting and law enforcement are, people in them don't make things.  They don't add value to the earth's raw materials.  People who do those things are holding off on a whole lot of activity because they're not at all sure the tax and regulatory climate is going to improve any time soon.  Plus, that kind of hiring is the concern of America's towns and cities, not Washington.

His response to the question about the security leaks was pretty lame.  Couldn't he have found a less cliched way to dispense some boilerplate than "zero tolerance"?

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