Geez, what HAPPENED while I was gone?

Well, I haven't really been gone, just caught on the bottom of a marathon tag team cage wrestling match with the XHTML Strict web coding protocol, some Word Press theme templates, and the Holy Grail fluid center online layout while trying to give birth to a web site. I mean, I haven't even had time to watch the late showing of Countdown!

I finally get my head above water, and what do I see? Health Care reform is on the critical list, Keith is feuding with John Stewart, Michael Moore is calling the Dems disguting, coporate (and union) personhood has been concieved by the Supreme Court, Obama's talking spending freeze and not looking past his first term. The closest thing I find to good news is the arrest of the Acorn pimp and Fox News being "devastated" by it!

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P.S. If you want to target="_blank" while in XHTML Strict, have I got a javascript for you!

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Second, a little background on freeze-eology: there are two ways to do a freeze like this: (1) an across-the-board freeze on every program outside of national security; and (2) a surgical approach where overall totals are frozen but some individual programs go up and others go down. In short, a hatchet versus a scalpel.

During the campaign, you may recall that John McCain touted option 1: the hatchet approach of an across-the-board freeze.

The President was critical of that approach then, and we would be critical of it now. It's not what we're proposing. To the contrary, the entire theory of the President's proposed freeze is to dial up the stuff that will support job growth and innovation while dialing down the stuff that doesn't. Under our plan, some discretionary spending will go up; some will go down. That's a big difference from a hatchet.

Take, for example, the policies we announced yesterday -- a significant expansion (a 20% increase) in a program that provides services for seniors, like respite care and in-home services; a program to limit student loan repayments to 10 percent of income (after living expenses); an expansion of two tax credits, one for child care and another for retirement savings.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jared-bernstein/budget-freeze-eology-101_b_437277.html

Why shouldn't the President concentrate on the here and now?